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Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:22 Rory O'Driscoll One is they, they famously swapped out Travis for, um, as CEO and to the undying hatred of Emil Mikhail, who's now at the Department of Defense and obviously Travis, and a lot of controversy on that decision.

Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:40 Harry Stebbings Uh, and then Emil Michael obviously latched onto it, and I'm trying to remember, is it Dean Ball, his name?
  • ▶ 9:47 Rory O'Driscoll And then the second one was Emil, whom you mentioned before, Emil Michael, I'm never sure of the pronunciation of his last name, who was the guy at the Defense Department who got totally sideways with 3 times in the scene

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Shervin Pishevar I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now.
  • ▶ 20:35 Shervin Pishevar It's funny, 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, to acquiring it, uh, acquiring Lyft, uh, which, you know, uh, but they wanted too much,…
  • ▶ 21:37 Harry Stebbings Can we unpack it just first with Emil? 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:00 Harry Stebbings Ok, and so we have that, and so we have now Emil on board. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:48 Shervin Pishevar So the SoftBank conversations, ironically, Travis and Emil started those conversations, the ultimate twelve billion dollar investment from, from, uh, SoftBank Vision Fund. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:33 Shervin Pishevar I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion dollar company by now.
  • ▶ 1:03:19 Shervin Pishevar Um, you know, Sean from Sequoia, uh, Emile Michael, like, all of these guys and gals are in Palm Beach doing, like, 17 hour days.
  • ▶ 1:21:10 Shervin Pishevar It was very powerful, and if we had done that at Uber, because Travis was beloved, so was Emil. 2 times in the scene

Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 16, 2023 · 1 mention

Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 16, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Alfred Lin, I spoke to your brother, I spoke to Emil Michael, I spoke to many others, so thank you so much for joining me today.
  • ▶ 4:50 Harry Stebbings I did speak to Emil Michael before, and he said, you've got to ask about selling Tell Me. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:27 Harry Stebbings Are you ever planning to go back into the tech for-profit business from Emil Michael?

Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:19 Harry Stebbings It's, uh, you know, I just had Emil Michael on from Uber and obviously that was delete Uber.

GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 2, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:08 Harry Stebbings From a prioritization perspective, I spoke to Emil Michael before the show, um, wonderful, uh, wonderful conversation I had with him, but he told me about all the different avenues and products that you can build.
  • ▶ 53:58 Rafael Ilishayev Uh, Emil Michael has been a close friend and advisor to Kira and I for five years, six years now, and he's probably the best dealmaker in the world. 4 times in the scene

20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive Jul 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:38 Fritz Lanman I called up the guys, Emil and Travis at Uber and asked them, you know, what is their opinion?
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