Emil Michael
14 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2022 by Emil Michael · said 42 times in 9 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (24), Shervin Pishevar (8), Rory O'Driscoll (4), Rafael Ilishayev (4), Scott Gorlick (1), Fritz Lanman (1)
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2022 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
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- GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Oct 25, 2022
Emil Michael: Uber should have forced scared early investors to take liquidity
“And so more, the thing we, I wish we did more of Uber is give more investors liquidity when they get scared. I would be like Venturex sell. Like, I'll find you someone to sell to sell, go get the second G six and the, you know, the whatever. The discovery prop…”
Oct 25, 2022
Emil Michael: Startup board seats should have term limits after 10x returns
“So, so, or when early stage investors Get to this point where there's just a lot of paper gains. We, there should be sort of term limits on board seats, like term limit out. If I get to, you know, a 10 X return and can get you some liquidity, then you can move…”
Oct 25, 2022 negative
Oct 25, 2022
Emil Michael would have told Travis Kalanick to reject Benchmark's coercion
“Had I talked to him that day, I would have said, Travis, walk out of the room. If you want to rip up the papers in front of them and we'll get, you know, get a lawyer and whatever. This is ridiculous. You know, there's, this is unfair. This is coercive. And we…”
Oct 25, 2022
Tellme Networks raised $150M across four rounds in 12 months
“We started telling me in 1999. So if you think about the timing of that, we were unbeknownst to us, 18 months from the world coming to an end from a technology investing standpoint. So we had done the things four rounds in one in 12 months. Raised a hundred an…”
Oct 25, 2022 negative
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Emil Michael: Loose capital cycles enabled Uber to launch Uber Eats
“For founders, it's more a good thing than a bad thing. That means that there's more capital out there. So if your business model requires more capital, you can get it. And look, people are going to say, oh my God, it's loose capital, free money, blah, blah, bl…”
Oct 25, 2022
Emil Michael: Staying emotionally regulated gives leverage over uncentered counterparties
“I never get emotional back and that gives me power, right? It gives me power to, because I'm regulated, They're unregulated and uncentered, and that means they make more mistakes than I would. And so if you could be a shock absorber to emotion in negotiations,…”
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Jan 13, 2025 neutral
Pishevar: Uber nearly acquired Lyft, but Lyft demanded too much ownership
“Andreessen, having lost the Uber deal, ended up doing the Lyft deal, and we had, you know, Travis and Emil, you know, they were close to acquiring it acquiring Lyft which, you know but they wanted too much ownership so that luckily didn't work out”
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Jan 13, 2025 neutral
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Pishevar: Uber's Series D valuation was negotiated up to $17B from $10B
“So that Series D, like a year after the Series C, which Google and TPG did, that was at three billion. This was at seventeen billion, and we started off at 10. So, Emil was able to negotiate from, like, 10, eleven billion valuation to 17, because there was so …”