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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

take me to that time then it was one of the greatest experiences of my life you know watching an entrepreneur of travis's quality and being able to work with him very closely what do you think makes him so good with travis i immediately was like he's

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

take me to that time then it was one of the greatest experiences of my life you know watching an entrepreneur of travis's quality and being able to work with him very closely what do you think makes him so good with travis i immediately was like he's

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

extremely brilliant and one story i like to say is i'm close to yuri melner he's been a great mentor uh i met him when he first did the the facebook deal and that's how i actually met daniel and shaq through yuri uh we went on a meeting and trip together and yuri i brought yuri into uber so i brought a bunch of people into uber i could tell you that story at the same 33 cents what sort of price

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

extremely brilliant and one story i like to say is i'm close to yuri melner he's been a great mentor uh i met him when he first did the the facebook deal and that's how i actually met daniel and shaq through yuri uh we went on a meeting and trip together and yuri i brought yuri into uber so i brought a bunch of people into uber i could tell you that story at the same 33 cents what sort of price

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

extremely brilliant and one story i like to say is i'm close to yuri melner he's been a great mentor uh i met him when he first did the the facebook deal and that's how i actually met daniel and shaq through yuri uh we went on a meeting and trip together and yuri i brought yuri into uber so i brought a bunch of people into uber i could tell you that story at the same 33 cents what sort of price

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

290 million valuation. Yeah. Yuri and Travis were, it became close. We were at this Oscars party that I think CAA was doing and Yuri, Travis and I were there. And then Yuri, who was a mathematician and physicist, had this, you know, hobby of giving Travis really hard math problems. So he like gives them this math problem just verbally as we're sitting there at this Oscar party.

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

290 million valuation. Yeah. Yuri and Travis were, it became close. We were at this Oscars party that I think CAA was doing and Yuri, Travis and I were there. And then Yuri, who was a mathematician and physicist, had this, you know, hobby of giving Travis really hard math problems. So he like gives them this math problem just verbally as we're sitting there at this Oscar party.

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

290 million valuation. Yeah. Yuri and Travis were, it became close. We were at this Oscars party that I think CAA was doing and Yuri, Travis and I were there. And then Yuri, who was a mathematician and physicist, had this, you know, hobby of giving Travis really hard math problems. So he like gives them this math problem just verbally as we're sitting there at this Oscar party.

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 Travis famously like paces around all the time like we were at. There was a track at the office at Uber with his like path that he would walk back and forth. He would think by walking. And so he's like walking back and forth, figuring out this problem. And a lot of my friends in the magnet school, they would see, they were the types that could see numbers.

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 Travis famously like paces around all the time like we were at. There was a track at the office at Uber with his like path that he would walk back and forth. He would think by walking. And so he's like walking back and forth, figuring out this problem. And a lot of my friends in the magnet school, they would see, they were the types that could see numbers.

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 Travis famously like paces around all the time like we were at. There was a track at the office at Uber with his like path that he would walk back and forth. He would think by walking. And so he's like walking back and forth, figuring out this problem. And a lot of my friends in the magnet school, they would see, they were the types that could see numbers.

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 could see him looking up and calculating. And he came back in like two or three minutes and he was like, da, da, da, da, da. He said the equation. Yuri was like, almost. And he was like, oh, he ran off and walked around and then came back two minutes later and had the right answer all in his head. But it's that kind of brilliance.

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 could see him looking up and calculating. And he came back in like two or three minutes and he was like, da, da, da, da, da. He said the equation. Yuri was like, almost. And he was like, oh, he ran off and walked around and then came back two minutes later and had the right answer all in his head. But it's that kind of brilliance.

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 could see him looking up and calculating. And he came back in like two or three minutes and he was like, da, da, da, da, da. He said the equation. Yuri was like, almost. And he was like, oh, he ran off and walked around and then came back two minutes later and had the right answer all in his head. But it's that kind of brilliance.

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've been lucky to have invested in SpaceX and, you know, become friends with Elon. And later I did Hyperloop and And I got to witness what an exceptional and brilliant mind can do. And these are people that are like, it's not even 10X, you talk about 10X engineers, these are like 1000X humans. And so I've learned over time that it's worth waiting for the 1000X founders.

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've been lucky to have invested in SpaceX and, you know, become friends with Elon. And later I did Hyperloop and And I got to witness what an exceptional and brilliant mind can do. And these are people that are like, it's not even 10X, you talk about 10X engineers, these are like 1000X humans. And so I've learned over time that it's worth waiting for the 1000X founders.

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've been lucky to have invested in SpaceX and, you know, become friends with Elon. And later I did Hyperloop and And I got to witness what an exceptional and brilliant mind can do. And these are people that are like, it's not even 10X, you talk about 10X engineers, these are like 1000X humans. And so I've learned over time that it's worth waiting for the 1000X founders.

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 investing in the future Travis's or the future Elon's or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.

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 investing in the future Travis's or the future Elon's or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.

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 investing in the future Travis's or the future Elon's or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.