This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.
Shervin Pishevar
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.
In addition to Richard Branson joining the board, we have attracted and commanded the greatest minds to guide us as we position ourselves for global growth. Their proven leadership in their respective industries adds another dimension in helping us achieve our dream of bringing Virgin Hyperloop One technology to the world.
The U.A.E. has a progressive vision for transforming its economy, and Hyperloop One plays right into that by increasing access to the region and beyond.
With a Hyperloop One system in place, there is ability to further unify the alliance of the GCC, socially, culturally, and economically.
With Hyperloop One, the world will be cleaner, safer, and faster. It's going to make the world a lot more efficient and will impact the ways our cities work, where we live, and where we work. We'll be able to move between cities as if cities themselves are metro stops.
I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.
Government, in many ways, is absolutely going to, if not already has, become irrelevant. It's not going to be in control anymore with the technologies that are coming down the pipe.
For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now.
The thing is, getting rid of racism is a cultural thing that takes decades. It's not something we can solve immediately. Structural changes have to happen in our culture.
My family visits the office, and we have dinner together. We do this once or twice a week.
If you don't fail, you haven't tried hard enough.
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it.
If there's a car company, and you have another car company, you don't stop building your car and company because there are others.
Our vision is to, one day, connect all of Europe with our Hyperloop One system, networking the entire continent.
With Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.
You have to be able to bring technology to the forefront and allow economic opportunity to be more equally spread.
We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created, liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.
My role is really just to try to make sure that the voice of all shareholders and employees is heard - that no one is bullying their agenda, their choice of a CEO, or their selection of who should be the board members. Benchmark, I believe, has been pushing their agenda at the expense of those stakeholders.
We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.
The biggest advice is never, ever, ever give up. That's just - no matter what - don't give up.
I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.
Let's feed the world better food.
I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.
I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.
My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies to drag my Sherpa family into their fight with me.
I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.
I care deeply about the long-term success of the firm and believe my decision to resign is the best decision in the interests of the Sherpa Capital family of team members, founders, and LPs.
We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.
I had always been moved by the story and love of Antony and Cleopatra. Their love moved and changed the world. While their love ended in tragedy, their love endured the march of time. Their passion lit the world on fire.
Investors tend to avoid food companies.
By continuing to redefine the cost structure in food, we think Munchery will eventually make getting a high quality chef-prepared meal delivered to your door less expensive than buying the ingredients to cook a similar meal yourself.
Munchery is a full stack, end-to-end meal provider that specializes in delivery. It isn't a restaurant, and it isn't a delivery service.
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.
Human beings, in their present evolved state, have a limited capacity to digest, understand, and then properly and accurately disseminate events and information to other nodes of discourse.
The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.
As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.
Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.
I am going to spend more time face-to-face with my friends and family. I am going to unplug more.
I look forward to working with my friend and fellow Iranian American Mr. Khosrowshahi. Dara's experience and his proven track record of success make him the right choice to lead Uber.
The world economy is growing so fast.
The thing I learned from Travis Kalanick, Elon, and others is they don't spend their time thinking about competition. They think about what they're going to build next.
Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.
We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.
