Quotes from Shervin Pishevar

We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge started as a call to action for innovators, engineers, trailblazers, and dreamers around the world who shared our vision of creating a new mode of transportation. The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents.

Investors tend to avoid food companies.

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

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

Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.

The people that we sometimes start our journeys with are not the people we end the journeys with.

Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.

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

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.

We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.

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

We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.

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

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

You have to be able to bring technology to the forefront and allow economic opportunity to be more equally spread.

Munchery is a full stack, end-to-end meal provider that specializes in delivery. It isn't a restaurant, and it isn't a delivery service.

My role is really just to try to make sure that the voice of all shareholders and employees is heard - that no one is bullying their agenda, their choice of a CEO, or their selection of who should be the board members. Benchmark, I believe, has been pushing their agenda at the expense of those stakeholders.

Our vision is to, one day, connect all of Europe with our Hyperloop One system, networking the entire continent.

With a Hyperloop One system in place, there is ability to further unify the alliance of the GCC, socially, culturally, and economically.

Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in transportation with Hyperloop One.

I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.

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.

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