ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some of the world’s most influential families and organizations. Iconiq’s client list reads like a who’s-who of Silicon Valley greats. But their most famous client, and the key to their success, is Mark Zuckerberg, who met Makan in 2004 while Facebook was still in diapers. Zuckerberg gave fledgling Iconiq a big name in Silicon Valley, and the company’s client roster now includes Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some of the world’s most influential families and organizations. ICONIQ provides financial advisory and family office services, and manages direct investments across asset classes, with specific focus on technology growth equity, venture capital, middle market buyout and real estate. As of early 2021, Iconiq had more than $50 billion in assets under management, ranking the secretive firm as one of the country’s fastest venture capital/private equity success stories. Clients of Iconiq are also folks outside tech’s inner circle — billionaire hedge funders David Bonderman, Henry Kravis, and Tiger Global Management’s Chase Coleman, all of whom sit on the company’s board of directors. In 2019, it began buying up thousands of rental apartments across the United States.