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.
If you don't fail, you haven't tried hard enough.
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
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.
Hyperloop One has accomplished what no one has done before by successfully testing the first full scale Hyperloop system. By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you're flying at 200,000 feet in the air.
I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions.
We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.
People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.
Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.
Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.
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.
Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in transportation with Hyperloop One.
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
As the sixth largest economy in the world, the economic engine of the nation, and provider of a large percentage of the federal budget, California carries a lot of weight.
We can't edit people's content. We have to give them a platform to express themselves, and if they say something that the government doesn't like, we can't go delete it. We can't give the guy's IP address to the government.
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.
We've proven that our technology works and that Hyperloop One is the only company in the world that has built an operational Hyperloop system. As we move towards the commercialization of our technology, we'll continue to work with governments and embrace public-private partnerships to reimagine transportation as we know it.
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.
When you hear the sound of the Hyperloop One, you hear the sound of the future.
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 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 violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.
We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.
People are the greatest asset class.
Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.
The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.
You can't build the hyperloop without the government saying, 'We want this in our country.' We want to build it the right way.
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.
Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.
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.
Our nation will be in good hands under a president Hillary Rodham Clinton administration.
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.
Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.
What we're trying to accomplish is the cheapest, fastest, cleanest form of major public transportation. There's economic value in being able to move people and things fast - and without any delays, because the hyperloop is impervious to weather.
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.
The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.
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.
Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give it up.
The world economy is growing so fast.
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.
I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.
With a Hyperloop One system in place, there is ability to further unify the alliance of the GCC, socially, culturally, and economically.
By 2020, cargo loops should be working. By 2022, we should have people transport working.
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.
Dubai makes perfect sense for Hyperloop One because this is the 21st century's global transport hub, and its leaders understand that Hyperloop One is ushering in the next era of transportation.
As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.
Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.
This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.
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.
