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" I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him. "

Shervin Pishevar

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends. "

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" 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. "

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" This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation. "

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" 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. "

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" Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games. "

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" 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. "

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" At Hyperloop One, we're committed to enabling disruption, and we recognize the importance of partnership in being able to realize the full potential of developing robust ecosystems that are needed to support Hyperloop's capacity. "

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" It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast. "

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" If you spend your time thinking about competition, you're not accomplishing much. "

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" 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. "

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" The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it. "

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" 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. "

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" People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy. "

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" 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. "

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" Let's feed the world better food. "

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" The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics. "

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" I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy. "

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" Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely. "

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" Investors tend to avoid food companies. "

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" There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail. "

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" I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions. "

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" The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband. "

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" 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. "

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" We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future. "

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" 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. "

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" Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment. "

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