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Mike Shebat

Co-founder & CEO, Traba · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Shebat is the co-founder and CEO of Traba, an on-demand industrial staffing marketplace. Before launching Traba, he worked in operations at McMaster-Carr and scaled products and operations for Uber and Uber Eats across multiple countries.

9statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 4.11/5average certainty → 2.78/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 11said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mike argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Shebat: Traba requires 12-hour in-office workdays Monday through Thursday
“So what it means in practice at Trava is we're all committed to at least 12 hour days, Monday through Thursday. Friday, we're working late, but people do tend to go out on, on Friday night. But it's an in-office culture”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 3:25 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
50% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

250 words/min while actually speaking · 3.4 um and uh per 1k words · 6 false starts per 1k · 26.9% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Mike Shebat: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 30 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 5,298 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Mike Shebat is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 5/10
pushed back at the host 4/10
setup questions received 55%

Everything Mike Shebat said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Shebat: Traba requires 12-hour in-office workdays Monday through Thursday
“So what it means in practice at Trava is we're all committed to at least 12 hour days, Monday through Thursday. Friday, we're working late, but people do tend to go out on, on Friday night. But it's an in-office culture”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 3:25 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Shebat: Late-night team presence compounds startup execution speed
“The reason why I wanted to change the mindset is because if you know that not only you, but all your colleagues are also going to be there at eight PM, you're not even thinking about pushing it out the next day. You're doing it that night. And then at scale, l…”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 11:58 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Shebat: Workers should approach joining startups like joining Olympic sports teams
“I do believe strongly that everyone should be joining a company, more like an Olympic sports team. You need that level of commitment, you need that level of being all in.”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 0:18 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Shebat: Candidates overly focused on job titles are an immediate red flag
“If they're way too focused on title, it's an immediate red flag.”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 24:48 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Shebat: Candidates prioritizing cash over equity present a yellow flag
“People that are way too focused on cash. Versus the equity. I do think that's more of a yellow flag.”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 25:51 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shebat: Most Y Combinator startups fail because they get complacent post-graduation
“Why most Y Combinator startups that graduate Y Combinator end up not making it. And it's because they get complacent and they lose momentum.”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 32:28 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Rabois: Founders should operate like Navy SEALs, not the Army
“He actually did give a metaphor of like, I'm operating more like the army where the army is like very much like operational efficient across everything. No, no mistakes. Whereas what I should be doing as a founder is being more like a Navy seal, like going all…”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 46:57 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mike Shebat: Traba will become the AWS of labor for global supply chains
“I'm the CEO of a company called Trava, and we're a labor marketplace that connects workers with open shifts in the light industrial industry, and our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. So what that…”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 1:22 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Founders Fund's Trey Stephens Got Into Georgetown After Camping Outside Admissions
“Like there's actually a general partner of founders fund named Trey. We were just at his 40th birthday party. And one thing that was mentioned was that he didn't get into Georgetown the first time. And he literally went and like set up a tent in front of the a…”
Mike Shebat Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 42:03 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

The other half of the tape: Mike Shebat's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 7Keith Rabois 3

Statements about Mike Shebat, by other people (1)

Opinion
Rabois: LinkedIn developed a mediocre culture because early engineers wanted 35-hour weeks
“Yeah, we didn't have an Olympic work ethic. We had a bunch of French engineers that wanted to work 35 hours a week. At the time, In 2003 to five, when the company was really founded, most people thought the internet was dead, so we didn't, Reid Hoffman, who fo…”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 35:20 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Nov 27, 2023 24m
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