Shervin Pishevar Quotes

What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its drivers is their iPhone.

Uber exists because of mobile telephones.

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Uber is redefining the transportation industry now; Airbnb is doing it to the hotel industry. You can expect that to happen in every single industry.

Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

We're trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.