Shervin Pishevar

I was meeting with Rajiv Misra about buying Benchmark State because I was publicly going on CNBC and saying, hey, we'll buy Benchmark State. If you don't want out of the company, let's get you out.

I was meeting with Rajiv Misra about buying Benchmark State because I was publicly going on CNBC and saying, hey, we'll buy Benchmark State. If you don't want out of the company, let's get you out.

I was meeting with Rajiv Misra about buying Benchmark State because I was publicly going on CNBC and saying, hey, we'll buy Benchmark State. If you don't want out of the company, let's get you out.

so the softbank conversations ironically travis and emil started those conversations the ultimate 12 billion dollar investment from softbank vision fund they started that that whole negotiation then travis got removed from uber and and so did emil at the same time and so they got two of the greatest minds in silicon valley were taken out of the company this is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing steve jobs at apple

so the softbank conversations ironically travis and emil started those conversations the ultimate 12 billion dollar investment from softbank vision fund they started that that whole negotiation then travis got removed from uber and and so did emil at the same time and so they got two of the greatest minds in silicon valley were taken out of the company this is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing steve jobs at apple

so the softbank conversations ironically travis and emil started those conversations the ultimate 12 billion dollar investment from softbank vision fund they started that that whole negotiation then travis got removed from uber and and so did emil at the same time and so they got two of the greatest minds in silicon valley were taken out of the company this is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing steve jobs at apple

And it was a massive mistake. If you look at Tesla, it's a trillion-dollar company now. I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now. They brought in Dara Khosrowshahi, who's a dear friend. So I call Dara the great stabilizer. He has taken Uber to $175 billion market cap, which is great and profitable. He's done all of those things.

And it was a massive mistake. If you look at Tesla, it's a trillion-dollar company now. I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now. They brought in Dara Khosrowshahi, who's a dear friend. So I call Dara the great stabilizer. He has taken Uber to $175 billion market cap, which is great and profitable. He's done all of those things.

And it was a massive mistake. If you look at Tesla, it's a trillion-dollar company now. I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now. They brought in Dara Khosrowshahi, who's a dear friend. So I call Dara the great stabilizer. He has taken Uber to $175 billion market cap, which is great and profitable. He's done all of those things.

Travis was working on ideas like self-driving and automation. He was in pole position at the time. I saw him speak in Saudi Arabia at the FII a couple months ago, and they asked him, like, what would you have done if you had stayed at Uber? And he specifically went to, like, If you look at all the great things that are happening in AI and the paper that came out in 2017, we were on top of that.

Travis was working on ideas like self-driving and automation. He was in pole position at the time. I saw him speak in Saudi Arabia at the FII a couple months ago, and they asked him, like, what would you have done if you had stayed at Uber? And he specifically went to, like, If you look at all the great things that are happening in AI and the paper that came out in 2017, we were on top of that.

Travis was working on ideas like self-driving and automation. He was in pole position at the time. I saw him speak in Saudi Arabia at the FII a couple months ago, and they asked him, like, what would you have done if you had stayed at Uber? And he specifically went to, like, If you look at all the great things that are happening in AI and the paper that came out in 2017, we were on top of that.

We were working on things. And so he would have been one of the great AI automation entrepreneurs in the world. He would have applied his intelligence to Uber in a way that nobody can. Nobody can do what Elon's doing. Nobody can do what Travis is doing, no matter how great you are. These are like rare, rare Nobel Prize winning, essentially, founders.

We were working on things. And so he would have been one of the great AI automation entrepreneurs in the world. He would have applied his intelligence to Uber in a way that nobody can. Nobody can do what Elon's doing. Nobody can do what Travis is doing, no matter how great you are. These are like rare, rare Nobel Prize winning, essentially, founders.

We were working on things. And so he would have been one of the great AI automation entrepreneurs in the world. He would have applied his intelligence to Uber in a way that nobody can. Nobody can do what Elon's doing. Nobody can do what Travis is doing, no matter how great you are. These are like rare, rare Nobel Prize winning, essentially, founders.

And so Uber would have been a trillion dollar company. So in their greed to go after their current winnings of billions of dollars, single digit billions, Benchmark and the other investors made a critical mistake. What could have been what others that are in Tesla or SpaceX, for example, right now, who stuck by an exceptional founder with a strong personality like Elon,

And so Uber would have been a trillion dollar company. So in their greed to go after their current winnings of billions of dollars, single digit billions, Benchmark and the other investors made a critical mistake. What could have been what others that are in Tesla or SpaceX, for example, right now, who stuck by an exceptional founder with a strong personality like Elon,

And so Uber would have been a trillion dollar company. So in their greed to go after their current winnings of billions of dollars, single digit billions, Benchmark and the other investors made a critical mistake. What could have been what others that are in Tesla or SpaceX, for example, right now, who stuck by an exceptional founder with a strong personality like Elon,

If they had stuck by Travis, we would be experiencing what they're all experiencing, which is imagine if Benchmark had kept their ownership of, let's say, 10%. They would have had $100 billion to give to their LPs at this point if they had just not done this.

If they had stuck by Travis, we would be experiencing what they're all experiencing, which is imagine if Benchmark had kept their ownership of, let's say, 10%. They would have had $100 billion to give to their LPs at this point if they had just not done this.