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Mike Shebat

Co-founder & CEO, Traba. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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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.

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1appearances
9statements
2resolved
1supported
0contradicted
50%fully supported
11said about them ↓

Everything Mike Shebat said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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
20VC 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 across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Mike Shebat, by other people (1)

20VC 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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