Travis

“At Uber, like the VCs there wanted money and Travis didn't want to sell or IPO. So that's why they did it in part.”

“I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now.”

“Nobody can do what Elon's doing. Nobody can do what Travis is doing. No matter how great you are. These are, like, rare, rare Nobel Prize winning, essentially, founders.”

“But perhaps those benchmark LPs would have made even more money if Travis was still CEO, And the future of self-driving cars lived within Uber rather than living within Google. And maybe Uber becomes a one trillion dollar company over the course of the 20 twen…”

“Travis committed no crime and they, you know, sort of ousted him despite the fact that, you know, they actually didn't necessarily, you know, have the legal control to do so. They just cornered him in a hotel room, you know, two days after his mother had passe…”

“Travis had failed over and over to unify his executive team. Executive meetings were canceled at the last minute. Backbiting and infighting were the rule, not the exception.”

“Best thing I'd say is is a bar for talent. Travis went after incredibly talented people, and I got to keep some of them, which is great. Worst thing, I think it was just the brand damage as it related to Uber, the enterprise.”

“He has a, he's built a dark kitchen company that we do work with, and I think it's the biggest dark kitchen company out there, so if anyone succeeds in that area, I think it'll be Travis.”

“So, one of my mistakes as an investor is Anton, my friend Anton Levy, co-president of the farm, invited me to look at Uber, the two billion dollar round, because of the international opportunity, and we went, and we met Travis, The entire black market industry…”

“In the end, what pushed Travis out was when his team held him accountable. It was when the, you know, his 13 senior managers all wrote a letter and said, dude, you gotta stay out of the company.”

“So, my biggest misses were really as a personal investor, you know, sitting in a hotel room in 2011 with Kevin Systrom and Travis from Uber and, you know, having the opportunity, but not raising my hand and saying like, hey, I'd love to invest, right?”

“Clearly Uber was the deal that I totally fucked up. Travis gave me the opportunity to invest in June of... The reality is I didn't invest multiple times, not just in the seed realm, so it's probably my mistake multiple times over.”