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Travis Kalanick reveals Bill Gurley pressured him to take a $6 billion valuation. Two months later, he raised at $17.5 billion. "Gurley was convinced it was the end of the world and we've got to raise, and just take your first term sheet, just f*cking take it." "We got... show more
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Gurley got scared. It’s well documented.

Gurly argued on his BG2 podcast that free trade was good because it raised a lot of people in China out of poverty at the cost of hollowing out the middle class in the USA. That very elitist take turned me off to him; not a fan.

Travis' run at Uber will be studied for decades. No denying his genius and success nor the poor oversight of the culture that led to some pretty awful things happening on his watch. Either way, love seeing him with the gloves off, especially when it comes to VCs.

Travis is a operator. Gurley watches from the sideline and pretends to play.

@travisk is from the same ilk as Elon. Don’t bet against him.

Benchmark, Fidelity, First Round, Lowercase, and Menlo

ft @davidsenra @travisk @USWREMichael

@shervin Can someone say vendetta? Travis settling scores should not be confused with an objective history of what happened.

If the guy is pushing for a 6bn valuation and you then close at 3x that then that should just end that type of conversation, and that vc should just stop trying to get involved.

@bgurley has been named. I wonder if he would respond.

Never realized what I’d been missing until now. His previous talks felt mostly buzzword-heavy and surface-level, completely different energy here. Great stuff - really loved it @trviks

Travis, you are just awesome!

The dominant silicon photonics IP poetfolio is acquired by Nvdia on the cheap because Comven and ARCH panicked during the telecom bust in the early aughts and screwed over the founder of one of their portfolio companies. They ruined a good man and blew up an opportunity yo exit for a lot more than they did. I hope karma found the people responsible. I learned very valuable lessons from that episode.

Man, Travis is just amazing and legendary.

the 17.5 billion seems like June 2014 round - what even was the world coming to an end angle then? wasn't this the super smooth decacorn run, till 2017 that is?

@bgurley Where is the public apology? Pretty bad shit you did there.

Gurley is a weak boy. Should never manage money. @grok - what has bill gurley from benchmark capital created in his career (outside of dealing with money)?

"I don't get attached to a price I get attached to a process" @jayyeh this you or this tk

I think it's cool they still follow each other here. After the dust settled I'm sure they still respect each other

@travisk helping us all with great insights!

Someone gave me an offer and I said yes almost immediately . Then they proceeded to say they were disappointed for taking the first offer on the table . 😂

this was actually illuminating

Why was the world ending in 2017?

@grok whats company this guys created

Odysseus!!

@travisk why not join hands with @elonmusk ?

The tell is Gurley wanted certainty and Kalanick had a close call. The biggest calls in a company are never the clean 80/20s, those get automated. They are the close ones where a framework narrows the field but somebody still makes the leap, never the investors leap to make.

Wow, that's quite a story. Good thing they stuck to their guns!
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