Shervin Pishevar

19 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2015 by Jason Calacanis · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Jun 1, 2015
Disclosure
Calacanis details early Uber investment alongside Bill Gurley and Shervin Pishevar
“I was the angel investor in Uber, Bill Gurley did the A round, Shervin did the B”
Jason Calacanis Jun 1, 2015 ▶ 14:56 Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Pishevar spent millions investigating Fusion GPS smear campaign
“It was worth it to me to, you know, spend millions of dollars on a, legal fees and doing the, we filed seven, four, the latest one is against Fusion GPS, and the judge found with us last year, and is gonna force Fusion GPS to say who hired them”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 56:03 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Pishevar: Passed on WeWork over flawed business model
“I passed on that company, that was ironically another benchmark company. I passed on that company because it didn't, I remember the dot com crash and all the office buildings being cleared up. And I was like, I don't get this business model. You don't own, own…”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 59:55 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Pishevar invested in SpaceX in 2014 at $6 billion valuation
“He had some available back in twenty-fourteen at like a, you know, six billion dollar valuation, so we put some money in at that valuation.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:15:01 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Open
Pishevar: Closed Uber, Warby Parker, Tumblr, and Machine Zone in 90 days
“In my first 90 days, I closed Uber, Warby Parker Tumblr, and Machine Zone.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 6:26 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2045
Pishevar: Humans will achieve 150-plus year lifespan within 20 years
“Don't die in the next 20 years, because we're gonna reach a point of longevity where you'll be able to help, live a healthy life for 150 plus years.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:09:02 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Pishevar: Fusion GPS gave a fake police report to Fast Company
“We found out an investigation that two weeks after I won the case founding Partner of Fusion GPS was sitting at a cafe in DC with a reporter from Fast Company with a memory stick and a fake police report from London about me. And they gave it to the reporter.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 44:23 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2030
Pishevar: SpaceX will become a $10 trillion company
“So I think SpaceX will be a 10 trillion dollar company. It's just getting started.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:15:13 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Pishevar: Holder's investigation report found no personal wrongdoing by Kalanick
“And the report, by the way, didn't find anything wrong that, you know, Travis did, or I did, or there was nothing, nothing in there about, you know, him, you know, directly and the recommendation was like to go hire a Sheryl Sandberg, like a chief operating of…”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 39:29 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025
Assertion Open
Pishevar: London police emails explicitly disavowed fabricated report to journalists
“And there were multiple emails from the London police telling the reporter, like, this is not our report.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 45:25 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Pishevar: Made couple hundred million dollars from Uber investment
“Couple hundred million. Yeah.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:11:06 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Pishevar passed on investing in Zimride before it became Lyft
“What happened was Lyft was, you know, Zimride, and I had passed on Zimride”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 19:29 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Pishevar turned $25,000 into $4 million investing in Lowercase Capital
“I would say it would be lowercase Chris Saka's fund. I put, you know, a little check in there and got four million out like, 25,000 turned into four million, so it was a legendary fund. I think it was like ten million and returned like 1.5000000000 or somethin…”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:13:03 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pishevar: Uncovering who hired Fusion GPS will destroy careers
“Once we find out who've, who hired Fusion GPS, then, you know, I think careers are gonna fall.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 57:29 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2035
Pishevar: Quantum and AI merger will cure all diseases within 10 years
“Quantum and AI, even at the chipset level, are going to merge. And then that's going to revolutionize all aspects of our lives. We'll find cures to every known disease known to mankind within, I would say, the next 10 years.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:08:32 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 positive
What-if
Pishevar: Deal-by-deal carry yielded higher returns than Menlo's fund carry
“I got more carry than I would have gotten in the fund by agreeing to do deal by deal carry.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 13:08 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Pishevar: Menlo Ventures passed on Snapchat seed and Series A rounds
“I, so, I brought Snapchat to Menlo. Evan and I hit it off. I really believe that. I was on it in the first 30 days, because my kids were on it, and so they showed it to me, and I was chasing it, and Evan and I hit it off and unfortunately Menlo passed on the, …”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:17:37 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Pishevar sold all Facebook shares to bet everything on Uber secondary stock
“He allowed me to buy secondary shares from another early person, so I sold all my Facebook shares that had gone public at like, 53 bucks, 58 bucks a share, and I put it all I bet it all, everything I had, I put it all into Uber.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 13:25 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Pishevar purchased secondary Uber stock at effective 33 cents per share
“It was 33 cents a share, effectively based on today's prices, so it would be 33 cents a share.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 13:58 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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