When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.
— Shervin Pishevar
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.
At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.
Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.
We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.
The world economy is growing so fast.
Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.
The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.
The people that we sometimes start our journeys with are not the people we end the journeys with.
Our nation will be in good hands under a president Hillary Rodham Clinton administration.
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.
Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.
There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.
Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.
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.
As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
Let's feed the world better food.
Investors tend to avoid food companies.
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 have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.
I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.
Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
The incredible talent that has assembled at Hyperloop One is what is making it possible. I don't just think it's a technology story, I think it's a human story. It's those hearts and that passion of everyone and the commitment that is distorting reality and making this possible as fast as it is.
In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.
Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.
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.
I am going to spend more time face-to-face with my friends and family. I am going to unplug more.
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
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.
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.
I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.
I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.
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.
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.
