Emil Michael

12 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2024 by Emil Michael · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Feb 14, 2024 negative
Opinion
Emil Michael: Uncontrolled immigration prevents successfully integrating new arrivals into society
“A country is not a country without a border, right? And not being able to control comes in means, means you can't serve those who come in very well. And if the idea is we have a melting pot so that everyone who comes in here, we take care of, they're entitled …”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 2:41 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024
Assertion Supported
Emil Michael: Uber raised $15 billion between June 2014 and June 2016
“We raised fifteen billion between June of 14 And June of 16. So in two years. So all that fundraising we did, I was there for four years, was concentrated in two years.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 18:33 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Michael: 99% of Uber Alumni Call It Their Best Career Experience
“99% of the people who went through Uber say it was the best experience of their life. What you read about is that one percent, and I think people are really longing for that culture again in business.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 27:08 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Michael: DoD Used Mobile Payments to Prevent Afghan Warlords Skimming Troop Pay
“So so we then did a mobile payment system so that we could pay them, they got to keep it and we would prevent the warlords from taking it, and then we sort of were able to consistently get them on their side, so they wouldn't be doing IEDs against us.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 12:36 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 negative
Opinion
Michael: Elite university students fear speaking and lack critical thinking skills
“What you know it is now is a place where people are walking around with fear to not say what they think. They're not challenging their ideas. That means they're not coming out as fully formed adults with the ability to critically think through problems and sol…”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 5:24 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 bullish
What-if
Uber would be worth $600 billion today without leadership disruption, says Michael
“Six hundred million? Five X. Yeah, six hundred billion. We would have been Instacart. We would have had a payment system because we'd have so much share of wallet. There was so much more we would have done.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 37:12 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Opinion
Michael: Ben Sasse successfully depoliticized University of Florida
“University of Florida where Ben Sasse He's done a really good job sort of taking the politics out of school and letting people speak and debate and come out critical thinkers.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 5:43 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Pentagon tagged Pakistani fertilizer plants to track IED supply chains
“And I was on Jieda, which is the joint IED on, you know, task force. So we would do crazy things like sprinkle markers into the fertilizer plants in Pakistan that were used to make the IEDs so we could Track them.”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 13:57 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uber launchers could not leave a city until achieving ten-minute ride liquidity
“You can't leave until you do two things. You create liquidity in that market. Liquidity meant you could get a ride in 10 minutes or less anywhere in the city. That means you have to find out where the drivers are, you have to market to consumers, you have to d…”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 22:11 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Pentagon deployed Google Gemini to four million personnel in two months
“Which is why in two months of owning, being the chief AI, having the chief AI office run in my world, which was a new move, we were able to launch gen AI, which is Google's Gemini for four million, every, every employee, military and civilian in the department…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 7:23 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 9, 2026
Assertion Supported
Emil Michael says Pentagon issued RFI for space-based interceptors
“We just did an RFI for space-based interceptors, which is how do you put something in space that could take something down in space.”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 17:52 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Pentagon pays Google 47 cents annually for Gemini deployment
“They were the first of the big frontier AI companies to say, we want to work at Department of Defense. They were easy to work with on the contract. We're paying 47 cents For the whole year for all of this. So they're like taking, taking a loss to make sure tha…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 8:01 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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