Shervin Pishevar

And we replicated that playbook all over the world. So in India, we would launch with a Bollywood actor or a cricket player.

And we replicated that playbook all over the world. So in India, we would launch with a Bollywood actor or a cricket player.

Because this is like the dream story to date. Yeah. The business did not fray. The business was executing at the highest levels of excellence.

Because this is like the dream story to date. Yeah. The business did not fray. The business was executing at the highest levels of excellence.

Because this is like the dream story to date. Yeah. The business did not fray. The business was executing at the highest levels of excellence.

So what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. And that was unfortunately, in my opinion, I was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. And, you know, I haven't told many of these stories. I've kind of waited until we found out exactly all the things that happened. But basically, Gurley was pressuring Travis and Uber to go public as soon as possible, pushing for that incessantly.

So what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. And that was unfortunately, in my opinion, I was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. And, you know, I haven't told many of these stories. I've kind of waited until we found out exactly all the things that happened. But basically, Gurley was pressuring Travis and Uber to go public as soon as possible, pushing for that incessantly.

So what went wrong was we had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. And that was unfortunately, in my opinion, I was Bill Gurley at Benchmark. And, you know, I haven't told many of these stories. I've kind of waited until we found out exactly all the things that happened. But basically, Gurley was pressuring Travis and Uber to go public as soon as possible, pushing for that incessantly.

Did a blog post that didn't name Uber, but was like talking about that they would be these companies need to go public. At one point, Travis stopped responding to Gurley because he was being annoying. And so Gurley is like a six foot 10 Texan guy who's used to getting his way and being listened to and so on. So when Travis stopped responding to him,

Did a blog post that didn't name Uber, but was like talking about that they would be these companies need to go public. At one point, Travis stopped responding to Gurley because he was being annoying. And so Gurley is like a six foot 10 Texan guy who's used to getting his way and being listened to and so on. So when Travis stopped responding to him,

Did a blog post that didn't name Uber, but was like talking about that they would be these companies need to go public. At one point, Travis stopped responding to Gurley because he was being annoying. And so Gurley is like a six foot 10 Texan guy who's used to getting his way and being listened to and so on. So when Travis stopped responding to him,

We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis starting in January of 2017. And then when the Susan Fowler blog post happened about a month later. Remind everyone, what was the Susan Fowler blog post? It was an engineer that had a bad experience with kind of a middle manager, her engineering background.

We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis starting in January of 2017. And then when the Susan Fowler blog post happened about a month later. Remind everyone, what was the Susan Fowler blog post? It was an engineer that had a bad experience with kind of a middle manager, her engineering background.

We found out in our investigation that he hired some private investigators, had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis starting in January of 2017. And then when the Susan Fowler blog post happened about a month later. Remind everyone, what was the Susan Fowler blog post? It was an engineer that had a bad experience with kind of a middle manager, her engineering background.

middle manager who basically harassed her. And so she wrote a blog post about it. I remember that day vividly because Travis and I were in Malibu. Every summer we rented a Malibu house with some good friends of ours. So we had this kind of, I call it the last innocent weekend in Silicon Valley. So we had this great weekend, laughing and relaxing after working really hard.

middle manager who basically harassed her. And so she wrote a blog post about it. I remember that day vividly because Travis and I were in Malibu. Every summer we rented a Malibu house with some good friends of ours. So we had this kind of, I call it the last innocent weekend in Silicon Valley. So we had this great weekend, laughing and relaxing after working really hard.

middle manager who basically harassed her. And so she wrote a blog post about it. I remember that day vividly because Travis and I were in Malibu. Every summer we rented a Malibu house with some good friends of ours. So we had this kind of, I call it the last innocent weekend in Silicon Valley. So we had this great weekend, laughing and relaxing after working really hard.

I'd just flown in from China. And the blog post happened, and Emil walked in and was like, hey guys, you should take a look at this. It's got 3,000 likes. So we read it, and then Rachel Whetstone called, who was a political operative. Gurley had advised Travis to hire, and it turned out there were two political operatives from Google that were hired, and Rachel was one of them.

I'd just flown in from China. And the blog post happened, and Emil walked in and was like, hey guys, you should take a look at this. It's got 3,000 likes. So we read it, and then Rachel Whetstone called, who was a political operative. Gurley had advised Travis to hire, and it turned out there were two political operatives from Google that were hired, and Rachel was one of them.

I'd just flown in from China. And the blog post happened, and Emil walked in and was like, hey guys, you should take a look at this. It's got 3,000 likes. So we read it, and then Rachel Whetstone called, who was a political operative. Gurley had advised Travis to hire, and it turned out there were two political operatives from Google that were hired, and Rachel was one of them.