Shervin Pishevar
Co-Founder, Sofreh Capital. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Pishevar is an early tech investor who led Menlo Ventures' Series B investment in Uber and backed companies including SpaceX, Airbnb, and Warby Parker. He also co-founded the venture firm Sherpa Capital and co-founded Virgin Hyperloop One.
2shows
2appearances
55statements
15resolved
8supported
4contradicted
53%fully supported
3said about them ↓ Everything Shervin Pishevar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pishevar: Bill Gurley was the wrong VC on Uber's board
“We had the wrong venture capitalists on the board. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was Bill Gurley at Benchmark.”
Pishevar: Bill Gurley hired PIs and met weekly to oust Travis Kalanick
“We found out in our investigation that he hired Some private investigators had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.”
Pishevar: Benchmark Hired Private Investigators Against Naval Ravikant
“There's a history of VCs who have done this type of thing and in Benchmark's case, they did it against Naval. They hired private investigators and Naval Ravikant. He had a company called eGroups, and he got thrown out of it.”
Pishevar: Iranian regime massacred over 43,000 peaceful protesters in one month
“As you saw last month they massacred over 43,000 Iranians who were just peacefully protesting.”
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.”
Pishevar: Iran would have used nuclear weapons already if available
“There's not even a doubt in my mind that they would have used it by now if they had it.”
Pishevar: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is sole legitimate Iranian transition leader
“And the only leader that is legitimate To lead us to a transition process to become a democracy is the Crown Prince Rezipalavi.”
Pishevar: Uber would be worth $1T if Travis Kalanick stayed
“I believe if Travis and Emil had stayed at Uber, Uber would be a trillion-dollar company by now.”
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…”
Pishevar: Firing Kalanick from Uber was tech's worst mistake since Jobs
“And so they got two, two of the greatest minds in Silicon Valley were taken out of the company. This is the greatest value destruction that's happened since firing Steve Jobs at Apple. And it was a massive mistake.”
Pishevar: Benchmark ousting Travis Kalanick was one of worst VC decisions ever
“I believe that it was, you know, one of the worst venture, ah, decisions ever.”
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”
Pishevar: Traditional venture capital model is dead
“Venture capital as it is today, especially with private equity coming downstream and what we've seen with the drunken era venture capital is dead. The venture capital that we grew up with and that we looked up to is that model is gone.”
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.”
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.”
Pishevar: Steve Ballmer was a terrible CEO despite massive wealth
“Steve Ballmer. You know, the decade that he was CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft was completely just flat, right? And he's now richer than Bill Gates, right?”
Pishevar: New nation states will be established and populated in our lifetimes
“We're gonna basically see new nation states, new countries be started in our lifetimes, and you're gonna see a lot of people opt in to those new, new nations.”
Pishevar: Uber allies should have staged OpenAI-style employee revolt for Kalanick
“What I wish I had done or had the wisdom to know to do was what, you know, Sam and his allies did in getting the employees at OpenAI to back Sam and say, if he doesn't come back, we're gonna leave. . It was very powerful, and if we had done that at Uber, becau…”
Pishevar: Free Iran transition plan outlines a 24-month constitutional timeline
“When there is a free Iran, there will be a four-month process to get to a referendum and then a six-month process to assemble Iranians to write a constitution and then a fourteen-month process to actually finalize the constitution, And then have a vote on the …”
Shervin Pishevar: Over 50,000 Iranian military personnel contacted Crown Prince Pahlavi
“Well, the Crown Prince had a system for people to communicate securely with him and his team, and over 50,000 people in the military have actually responded to that.”
Pishevar: Kalanick's six-month regulatory delay cost Uber 30% market share to Lyft
“Travis Basically for six months was like, you know, telling the taxi commission, the city, government, like, you know, hey, these guys are illegal, like, well, you know, why are you allowing it, et cetera, instead of launching it, you know, as well which was l…”
Pishevar: Uber nearly acquired Lyft, but Lyft demanded too much ownership
“Andreessen, having lost the Uber deal, ended up doing the Lyft deal, and we had, you know, Travis and Emil, you know, they were close to acquiring it acquiring Lyft which, you know but they wanted too much ownership so that luckily didn't work out”
Benchmark sued Travis Kalanick in Delaware court over Uber board seats
“About in early August They then sued in Delaware courts after they had already gotten rid of Travis. They then sued to get rid of him and his two board seats that he had gotten that he hadn't appointed yet. So three board seats. So they wanted, you know, effec…”
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder, Sofreh Capital | 1 | 49 | 57% 8/14 | full record on 20VC → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-Founder, Sofreh Capital | 1 | 6 | 0% 0/1 | full record on All-In → |