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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.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Kalanick studied computer engineering and business economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. While studying at UCLA, Kalanick was a member of Theta Xi fraternity and started his first business, an online file-exchange service called Scour. In 1998, he dropped out of UCLA to work at the start-up full-time.

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.

According to Kalanick’s archived blog, Swooshing, he lived over three years without a salary at Red Swoosh, moved into his parents’ house in 2001 (which he told the Failcon 2011 audience and commented that he “wasn’t getting ladies. It sucked.”), owed “$110,000 to the IRS in un-withheld income taxes”, witnessed “all but one of the company’s engineers” leaving (who eventually also departed), and moved to Trivandrum (India) and Thailand as a cost-saving measure. Kalanick committed tax & securities fraud and perjury during the IRS investigation, blaming his partner Michael Todd, but neither were prosecuted. In 2007 Akamai Technologies acquired the company for $19 million, but facilitated securities fraud with Kalanick by failing to pay all shareholders.

In 2001, with Michael Todd, Kalanick started a new company called Red Swoosh, another peer-to-peer file-sharing company. Red Swoosh software took advantage of increased bandwidth efficiency on the Internet to allow users to transfer and trade large media files, including music files and videos. The company also received help from former Scour employees.

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In 1998, Kalanick, along with Michael Todd and Vince Busam, dropped out of UCLA to help Dan Rodrigues found Scour Inc., a multimedia search engine, and Scour Exchange, a peer-to-peer file sharing service. In 2000, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) brought a $250 billion lawsuit against Scour, alleging copyright infringement. In September 2000, Scour filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from the lawsuit.

Despite CTO Thuan Pham’s 2016 internal email to employees commenting, “I will not even utter the name of this deplorable person because I do not accept him as my leader” on the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, which was widely circulated and published by the media, in December 2016, it was announced that Kalanick joined other CEOs, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Disney CEO Bob Iger, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, as an economic advisor on Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum, organized by Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman. Kalanick vocally opposed President Trump’s executive order banning travel from select countries and believed that remaining on Trump’s advisory council would provide him with the opportunity to directly address his concerns with the President and advocate for immigrants. In an Uber blog post, Kalanick stated that he wanted to use his position on the council to “give citizens a voice, a seat at the table.” However, after continued pressure, Kalanick announced in an email to Uber employees that he would step down from the council.

Who is Travis Kalanick Dating?

According to our records, Travis Kalanick is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Travis Kalanick’s is not dating anyone.

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.

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