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Dan Primack: prediction

25 Oct 2019 Acquired The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)

“For example, Travis Kalanick, I think, owned like 6% of Uber when he got booted, around 6%.”

— Dan Primack

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Dan Primack
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prediction
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25 Oct 2019
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Acquired

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…Do you know if that was happening at the Series A already? I don’t know for sure. Adam Neumann even at the time of IPO, owned a remarkable amount. For example, Travis Kalanick, I think, owned like 6% of Uber when he got booted, around 6%. Adam owned ⅓ of the company after all the SoftBank money, et cetera. He controlled this thing even in those early days. Adam, of course, had Miguel as his co-founder. It’s now obfuscated because they have their shares in an LLC, but I believe Adam always had a greater economic percentage of the company than Miguel. If you remember, back to Uber and Travis, Travis was not the owner of Uber. It was Garrett Camp.…

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