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2508.192 - 2533.726 Shervin Pishevar

Travis was working on ideas like self-driving and automation. He was in pole position at the time. I saw him speak in Saudi Arabia at the FII a couple months ago, and they asked him, like, what would you have done if you had stayed at Uber? And he specifically went to, like, If you look at all the great things that are happening in AI and the paper that came out in 2017, we were on top of that.