Travis Kalanick

Quick Facts

Full Name	Travis Kalanick
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Aug 6, 1976(1976-08-06)
Age	48
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Leo

Travis Kalanick Biography

Travis Kalanick is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 6, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Entrepreneur known for being one of the founders of the popular ridesharing service Uber. He’d previously founded Red Swoosh, a P2P company that was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007.

He joined Mark Zuckerberg on the Forbes 400 list.

Kalanick was born on August 6, 1976 and grew up in Northridge, California. Kalanick’s parents are Bonnie Renée Horowitz Kalanick (née Bloom) (died 2017) and Donald Edward Kalanick. Bonnie, who was Jewish, worked in retail advertising for the Los Angeles Daily News. Donald, from a Slovak-Austrian Catholic family whose grandparents immigrated to the United States, was a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles. Kalanick has two half-sisters, one of whom is actress Allisyn Ashley Arm’s mother Anji, and a brother, Cory, who is a firefighter. Kalanick’s mother, Bonnie, died in a boating accident May 26, 2017.

Travis Cordell Kalanick (/ˈ k æ l ə n ɪ k / ; born August 6, 1976) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of Scour, a peer-to- peer file sharing application; Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network; and Uber, a transportation network company. Red Swoosh was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Kalanick is the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, a position he held from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017, after controversy over the company’s reported unethical culture, including allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. In the weeks leading up to a December 24th, 2019 announcement that he would resign his Board seat effective December 31, Kalanick sold off approximately 90% of his shares in Uber.

He was born to Bonnie and Donald Kalanick and grew up with two half-sisters and a brother. His mother was tragically killed in a boating accident in 2017.

Travis Kalanick Net Worth

Travis Kalanick is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Travis Kalanick 's net worth $6 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied computer engineering at UCLA, but dropped out in order to help found Scour, a P2P service that filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

He first broke into the Forbes 400 in 2014 when his net worth reached an estimated $6 billion.

Kalanick is ranked 238th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $3.1 billion.

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Who is Travis Kalanick Dating?

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In 2009, Kalanick joined Garrett Camp and gives him “credit for the original idea” of Uber. Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon, spent $800 hiring a private driver with friends and had been mulling over ways to decrease the cost of black car services (meaning, taxis that are dispatched by a central service rather than hailed directly on the street) ever since. He realized that sharing the cost with people could make it affordable, and his idea morphed into Uber. “Garrett is the guy who invented that”, Kalanick said at an early Uber event in San Francisco. The first prototype was built by Camp, and his friends, Oscar Salazar and Conrad Whelan, with Kalanick being brought on as a “mega advisor” to the company. In October 2010, Kalanick succeeded Ryan Graves as CEO, who had held the position for ten months.

Facts & Trivia

Travis Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Travis Kalanick celebrates birthday on August 6 of every year.

On August 10, 2017, Axios reported that Benchmark was suing Kalanick for “fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.” The suit is based on Uber’s decision to expand the number of board seats, with Benchmark arguing the decision is invalid due to withholding of material information prior to the vote. The lawsuit was very controversial in Silicon Valley because of the relationship between the founder and the investor. The court ruled in the favor of Kalanick to move the case to arbitration on August 30. In response to the court ruling Kalanick released a public statement:

What does Travis Kalanick do now?

After Kalanick left Uber, he launched a venture firm called 10100, as well as City Storage Systems, a company which redevelops distressed real estate. He is now the CEO there, which serves as a parent company of CloudKitchens.

Why did Travis get kicked out of Uber?

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after after internal inquiry finds widespread sexual harassment, gender discrimination. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has resigned from his position as chief executive of the $68bn ride-hailing app following a tumultuous six months of scandal.

Is Super Pumped a true story?

The new series “Super Pumped” tells the story of Travis Kalanick and Uber’s early days. The show is based on a book by a New York Times reporter, but it can be hard to tell what’s real. The show embellishes, but most of episode 1 includes things that actually happened in real life.

Who owns Uber net worth?

His net worth is around $2.7 billion dollars. And according to Business Insider, he was relatively “cash-poor for a billionaire.” But his liquid assets saw a boost after he sold $1.4 billion in Uber shares to Japanese tech giant SoftBank.

Who currently owns Uber?

Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, where he manages the company’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. Dara was previously CEO of Expedia, which he grew into one of the world’s largest online travel companies.