Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber. Previously he worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application company, and was the co-founder of Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007.
Kalanick in 2016
Kalanick speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, 2012
Kalanick speaking at the LeWeb conference in December 2013
Uber drivers on strike at Montparnasse, Paris, February 2016
Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly referred to as Uber, is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 10,500 cities worldwide. It is the largest ridesharing company worldwide with over 150 million monthly active users and 6 million active drivers and couriers. It facilitates an average of 28 million trips per day and has facilitated 47 billion trips since its inception in 2010. In 2023, the company had a take rate of 28.7% for mobility services and 18.3% for food delivery.
Headquarters in Mission Bay, San Francisco
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Travis Kalanick, former CEO of Uber, in 2013
An Uber driver in Bogotá, Colombia with the Uber app on a dashboard-mounted smartphone