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Shervin Pishevar

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion dollar company by now. This is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing Steve Jobs at Apple. Travis, his true vision for Uber was to replace car ownership. And it was at that moment I realized, oh, the TAM is trillions. What do you think makes him so good? Really exceptional intelligence.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion dollar company by now. This is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing Steve Jobs at Apple. Travis, his true vision for Uber was to replace car ownership. And it was at that moment I realized, oh, the TAM is trillions. What do you think makes him so good? Really exceptional intelligence.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion dollar company by now. This is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing Steve Jobs at Apple. Travis, his true vision for Uber was to replace car ownership. And it was at that moment I realized, oh, the TAM is trillions. What do you think makes him so good? Really exceptional intelligence.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

You talk about 10x engineers. These are like 1,000x humans. We are actually full steam ahead, but things start to go wrong. Yeah, what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

You talk about 10x engineers. These are like 1,000x humans. We are actually full steam ahead, but things start to go wrong. Yeah, what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

You talk about 10x engineers. These are like 1,000x humans. We are actually full steam ahead, but things start to go wrong. Yeah, what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

That week, when Travis tragically lost his mother in a boating accident, Benchmark, Gurley decide to go after Travis. I haven't told many of these stories, but basically,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

That week, when Travis tragically lost his mother in a boating accident, Benchmark, Gurley decide to go after Travis. I haven't told many of these stories, but basically,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

That week, when Travis tragically lost his mother in a boating accident, Benchmark, Gurley decide to go after Travis. I haven't told many of these stories, but basically,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Thank you, Harry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Thank you, Harry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Thank you, Harry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Absolutely. Thank you. My mom passed away last Wednesday. We're going to have her funeral in a few days. And she was the most incredible human I've ever met. She was a teacher for 14 years in Iran. When we escaped the revolution and came to America, she started all over again. We came with $35 and then we had to escape. We started with nothing. And my dad drove a taxi while getting his PhD.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Absolutely. Thank you. My mom passed away last Wednesday. We're going to have her funeral in a few days. And she was the most incredible human I've ever met. She was a teacher for 14 years in Iran. When we escaped the revolution and came to America, she started all over again. We came with $35 and then we had to escape. We started with nothing. And my dad drove a taxi while getting his PhD.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Absolutely. Thank you. My mom passed away last Wednesday. We're going to have her funeral in a few days. And she was the most incredible human I've ever met. She was a teacher for 14 years in Iran. When we escaped the revolution and came to America, she started all over again. We came with $35 and then we had to escape. We started with nothing. And my dad drove a taxi while getting his PhD.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

My mom was a maid and worked two jobs, a cafeteria worker and a maid. I used to go clean rooms with her. So it was the kind of classic American dream story. And she took computer programming classes at a college in Maryland while I was a kid. And so she, and she would take me to her classes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

My mom was a maid and worked two jobs, a cafeteria worker and a maid. I used to go clean rooms with her. So it was the kind of classic American dream story. And she took computer programming classes at a college in Maryland while I was a kid. And so she, and she would take me to her classes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

My mom was a maid and worked two jobs, a cafeteria worker and a maid. I used to go clean rooms with her. So it was the kind of classic American dream story. And she took computer programming classes at a college in Maryland while I was a kid. And so she, and she would take me to her classes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

So I, and this was like when they had the paper with the holes in it, you punch the holes and that, that was how they coded in the eighties. And so I, I got to kind of see that. And then I saw the Apple and, And I begged for an Apple. My mom and dad worked overtime for three months to afford it. Back then it was like $3,000, which was a lot in 1985, 86.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

So I, and this was like when they had the paper with the holes in it, you punch the holes and that, that was how they coded in the eighties. And so I, I got to kind of see that. And then I saw the Apple and, And I begged for an Apple. My mom and dad worked overtime for three months to afford it. Back then it was like $3,000, which was a lot in 1985, 86.

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