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Khosrowshahi: Uber eliminated all dual-class super-voting shares for SoftBank deal
“We literally had to, like, get everyone to agree to blow up the high vote shares. I think it's actually the only time when tech, a tech company like, they blew up all of the high votes.”
Khosrowshahi: Travis Kalanick sold all his Uber shares after lockup expired
“After the IPO, after the lockup, Stayed. Travis sold all his shares.”
Khosrowshahi: Uber lost 85% of mobility volume while bleeding $2.5B during pandemic
“85% of your mobility volume, which was the profit driver of the company falls off a cliff. And Other CEOs, you know, they lost a ton of business, but most of these businesses were profitable. We were losing two and a half billion dollars, and then it just got …”
Benchmark's equity stake in Uber was valued at $8 billion in 2018
“In 2018, when that Wall Street Journal piece came out, their holding in Uber was worth eight billion dollars, so that alone would have sixteen-xed the fund.”
Benchmark led Uber's Series A at a $60 million post-money valuation
“20 11. A ten million dollar Series A at a, 10 or 11, at a sixty million dollar post money valuation.”