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Travis Kalanick
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Uber
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Austin, Texas
- Organization
- Cofounder at Uber Technologies Inc.
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (Drop Out)
- Marital Status
- Single
Assets
- Uber Technologies0 shares @ --UBER-US
Biography
Travis Kalanick cofounded ride-hailing firm Uber in 2009.
Kalanick stepped down as CEO in 2017 and left the board in 2019.
He sold all his Uber stock for more than $2.5 billion (pretax) in 2019.
He is now CEO of CloudKitchens, a global virtual kitchen company that raised money from Microsoft and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
Kalanick cofounded two tech startups before Uber: online file-exchange service Scour and file-sharing company RedSwoosh.
About
Kalanick dropped out of UCLA in 1998 to work on Scour full-time with some classmates.
Scour was later sued by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America before filing for bankruptcy in 2000.