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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

you know, lowercase, first round capital, Menlo, obviously Benchmark. And they basically said, look, if you don't resign, we're going to release this letter publicly to the press, et cetera. And so Travis was kind of, you know, in the room for hours and hours trying to decide what to do. And he ultimately agreed to step down, which I highly regret because... Did he have a choice?

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 now look at like how Sam Altman handled his coup d'etat over a weekend and how he galvanized the employee base. He learned some lessons about what's happened in the past to Steve Jobs, to Travis. He was able to find his way back when he thought he was gone, right? Could Travis have pushed back and said, release the letter?

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 now look at like how Sam Altman handled his coup d'etat over a weekend and how he galvanized the employee base. He learned some lessons about what's happened in the past to Steve Jobs, to Travis. He was able to find his way back when he thought he was gone, right? Could Travis have pushed back and said, release the letter?

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 now look at like how Sam Altman handled his coup d'etat over a weekend and how he galvanized the employee base. He learned some lessons about what's happened in the past to Steve Jobs, to Travis. He was able to find his way back when he thought he was gone, right? Could Travis have pushed back and said, release the letter?

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 think he was in a very tragic week in his life where he's lost his mother and I've just lost my mother. So I understand the grief that you're going through, especially in a tragedy like a boat accident. And so he was very vulnerable and they pounced, which is just unbecoming. Like it's not the type of behavior any VC or investor should do. And they took advantage of that fact and it worked.

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 think he was in a very tragic week in his life where he's lost his mother and I've just lost my mother. So I understand the grief that you're going through, especially in a tragedy like a boat accident. And so he was very vulnerable and they pounced, which is just unbecoming. Like it's not the type of behavior any VC or investor should do. And they took advantage of that fact and it worked.

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 think he was in a very tragic week in his life where he's lost his mother and I've just lost my mother. So I understand the grief that you're going through, especially in a tragedy like a boat accident. And so he was very vulnerable and they pounced, which is just unbecoming. Like it's not the type of behavior any VC or investor should do. And they took advantage of that fact and it worked.

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

They got him to step down. And then what happened, which got me directly engaged in the battle and what I call the Uber war, about in early August, they then sued in Delaware courts after they had already gotten rid of Travis. They then sued to get rid of him and his two board seats that he had gotten that he hadn't appointed yet. So three board seats.

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

They got him to step down. And then what happened, which got me directly engaged in the battle and what I call the Uber war, about in early August, they then sued in Delaware courts after they had already gotten rid of Travis. They then sued to get rid of him and his two board seats that he had gotten that he hadn't appointed yet. So three board seats.

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

They got him to step down. And then what happened, which got me directly engaged in the battle and what I call the Uber war, about in early August, they then sued in Delaware courts after they had already gotten rid of Travis. They then sued to get rid of him and his two board seats that he had gotten that he hadn't appointed yet. So three board seats.

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 they wanted, you know, effectively board control and they sued to get rid of him. So I hired Quinn Emanuel. John Quinn, who's like the fiercest litigator in the world, in the corporate world. And I countersued Benchmark and flew to Delaware, landed, went to this little courthouse.

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 they wanted, you know, effectively board control and they sued to get rid of him. So I hired Quinn Emanuel. John Quinn, who's like the fiercest litigator in the world, in the corporate world. And I countersued Benchmark and flew to Delaware, landed, went to this little courthouse.

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 they wanted, you know, effectively board control and they sued to get rid of him. So I hired Quinn Emanuel. John Quinn, who's like the fiercest litigator in the world, in the corporate world. And I countersued Benchmark and flew to Delaware, landed, went to this little courthouse.

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

And it made me fall in love with the American justice system because this entire corporate legal system is held up by this tiny little town, little courthouse. And as I go in the courthouse, We make our arguments and the judge finds with us and rejects Benchmark's attempt to get rid of the three board seats. I remember calling Travis and being like, Hey, we won.

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

And it made me fall in love with the American justice system because this entire corporate legal system is held up by this tiny little town, little courthouse. And as I go in the courthouse, We make our arguments and the judge finds with us and rejects Benchmark's attempt to get rid of the three board seats. I remember calling Travis and being like, Hey, we won.

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

And it made me fall in love with the American justice system because this entire corporate legal system is held up by this tiny little town, little courthouse. And as I go in the courthouse, We make our arguments and the judge finds with us and rejects Benchmark's attempt to get rid of the three board seats. I remember calling Travis and being like, Hey, we won.

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

Your three board seats are protected, like appoint them now. He ended up appointing Ursula from Xerox former CEO Merrill Lynch to the board and then I found out through our investigation two weeks later after I won this case there was a firm called fusion GPS which is the firm famously that did the Russian dossier against Trump a fake Russian dossier and

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

Your three board seats are protected, like appoint them now. He ended up appointing Ursula from Xerox former CEO Merrill Lynch to the board and then I found out through our investigation two weeks later after I won this case there was a firm called fusion GPS which is the firm famously that did the Russian dossier against Trump a fake Russian dossier and

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

Your three board seats are protected, like appoint them now. He ended up appointing Ursula from Xerox former CEO Merrill Lynch to the board and then I found out through our investigation two weeks later after I won this case there was a firm called fusion GPS which is the firm famously that did the Russian dossier against Trump a fake Russian dossier and

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

basically a political operative type firm, former journalists, basically the weaponized arm of the DNC. So they did the Russian dossier against Trump to basically make him lose to Hillary and then cause all kinds of trouble during the first term. Really immoral people.