Last Updated: 22 Aug, 2023 | Views: 876
Age: 48
Profession: CEO
Other Profession(s): Business Men, Internet Entrepreneur
Famous For: CEO of City Storage Systems
Higher Education: University of California, Los Angeles (Dropped out)
Net Worth: $4 Billion
About (Profile/Biography):
Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman who was born on August 6, 1976. He co-founded and served as the CEO of Uber. Previously, he co-founded Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007, and worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application company. Between 2010 and 2017, Kalanick was Uber's CEO.
Travis Kalanick Career:
As part of a trio that dropped out of UCLA in 1998, Kalanick, Vince Busam, and Michael Todd joined Dan Rodrigues, founder of Scour Inc., a multimedia search engine and peer-to-peer file-sharing service Scour Exchange.
A peer-to-peer file-sharing company was also founded by Kalanick with Michael Todd in 2001.
Day-to-day operations at Red Swoosh were funded by approximately $110,000 of payroll tax withholdings in September 2001.
With StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp, Kalanick co-founded ridesharing company Uber in 2009.
UberCab received a cease and desist order from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency in October 2010.
Kalanick's reputation was tarnished by his ruthlessness towards competitors, regulators, employees, and Uber's drivers by 2014.
Travis Kalanick Personal Life:
In the Castro District of San Francisco, Kalanick has a townhouse nicknamed "the Jam Pad." He has a Twitter account dedicated to the place.