Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Shervin Pishevar
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Iranian businessman Shervin Pishevar.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The world economy is growing so fast.
Investors tend to avoid food companies.
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.
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
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.
Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.
Our nation will be in good hands under a president Hillary Rodham Clinton administration.
I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.
Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.
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.
Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.
The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.
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.
People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.
You have to be able to bring technology to the forefront and allow economic opportunity to be more equally spread.
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.
Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.
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're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.
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.
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.
As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.
I am going to spend more time face-to-face with my friends and family. I am going to unplug more.
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 have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.
The people that we sometimes start our journeys with are not the people we end the journeys with.
There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.
Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.
I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions.
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're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 family visits the office, and we have dinner together. We do this once or twice a week.
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.
The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.
Let's feed the world better food.
You can't build the hyperloop without the government saying, 'We want this in our country.' We want to build it the right way.
This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.
I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.
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.
I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.
Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'
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