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1966.127 - 1990.489 Shervin Pishevar

I'd just flown in from China. And the blog post happened, and Emil walked in and was like, hey guys, you should take a look at this. It's got 3,000 likes. So we read it, and then Rachel Whetstone called, who was a political operative. Gurley had advised Travis to hire, and it turned out there were two political operatives from Google that were hired, and Rachel was one of them.