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" 2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time. "
Money
Time
Growing
" All broadcasts on Periscope need to be archived for playback permanently, unless the broadcaster chooses to delete the recording. So many treasured moments have been shared on Periscope only to vanish a day later. "
Delete
Only
Need
" Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors. "
Key
Product
Understand
" How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes? "
Someone
World
You
" I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious! "
Said
Blue
Coffee
" If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower. "
Science
Internet
Hate
" I had a blast. 'Shark Tank' embodies the American Dream. If you watch the show at home, you find yourself constantly hollering at the Sharks. Being able to sit next to them and call them out in real time was quite a privilege. "
Yourself
Time
American Dream
" I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio. "
Existing
Deals
Capital
" I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that. "
End
Marketing
Manager
" I have one of the self-driving Teslas; it drives itself periodically. It's a marvel of science, but it's still frightening. I think we've got a while before regulators and the general public wrap their heads around the path that will lead to the ubiquity of driverless cars. There's no doubt Uber will be a leader in that space. "
Think
Path
Got
" I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic. "
Mean
World
Right
" I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself. "
Experience
Friends
Good
" In social settings, under the guise of joking, being collegial, flirting, or having a good time, I undoubtedly caused some women to question themselves, retreat, feel alone, and worry they can't be their authentic selves. "
Alone
Feel
Worry
" I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe. "
Time
Learning
Confidence
" Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me. "
Me
Limitations
Travel
" Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved. "
Biggest
Problems
Math
" Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification. "
Society
Today
Winners
" Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for. "
Charge
Simplicity
Hard
" Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything. "
Everything
Startup
Investing
" There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed. "
Greed
Bring
Case
" They are desperate for surrogates to get behind Trump, and they can't find anyone who has actually had genuine success who is willing to stand behind him. That is because he is all smoke and mirrors. We know he doesn't have all the money he claims he has. "
Find
Stand
Smoke
" Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There's massive structural advantages to the player who's smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers - the party that understands best the behavior of riders. "
Information
Behavior
Uber
" Uber is a better company with better math, better predictive supply, better brand, lower pickup times, higher quality of service. They'll absolutely win. "
Better
Win
Service
" When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention. "
Questions
Living
Girl
" When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward. "
Want
Fight
Money
" You can't necessarily tell when watching at home, but those pitches are usually an hour long each, and many are emotional, hilarious, and inspiring. "
Emotional
Home
Long
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