University of California, Los Angeles (dropped out)
Occupation
Internet entrepreneur
Known for
Co-founder of Red Swoosh Co-founder of Uber
Title
CEO of City Storage Systems
Relatives
Allisyn Ashley Arm (half-niece)
Travis Cordell Kalanick (/ˈkælənɪk/; born August 6, 1976) 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 was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017, after growing pressure resulting from public reports of the company's unethical corporate culture, including allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. Kalanick retained his seat on the board of directors until he resigned the seat on December 31, 2019. In the weeks leading up to the resignation, Kalanick sold off approximately 90% of his shares in Uber, for a profit of about $2.5 billion. Following the sale, in 2017, Kalanick was ranked 238th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $2.6 billion.[1]
In 2018, Kalanick started a venture fund named 10100, intended to invest in e-commerce, innovation and real estate in emerging markets like China and India. That same year, Kalanick announced an investment of nearly $150 million in real estate redevelopment company City Storage Systems; he also announced that he would be its CEO.[2] The company operates a ghost kitchen startup under the name CloudKitchens, which was valued at $15billion as of 2021.
^"Forbes: Travis Kalanick". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
^Canales, Katie. "Ousted Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick has reportedly spent $130 million on his ghost kitchen startup. Here's what it's like inside one of the secretive locations". Business Insider. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
Travis Cordell Kalanick (/ˈkælənɪk/; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO)...
controversial activity between 2013 and 2017 under the leadership of TravisKalanick. In 2009, Garrett Camp, a co-founder of StumbleUpon, came up with the...
started by Diego Berdakin and EarthLink founder Sky Dayton in 2015. TravisKalanick, cofounder of Uber, bought control of the company in 2018. CloudKitchens...
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controversial activity between 2013 and 2017 under the leadership of TravisKalanick. Uber has been criticized for its strategy of generally commencing...
instrumental in the resignation of CEO TravisKalanick. Gurley reportedly had a close relationship with CEO TravisKalanick. He was Uber’s most engaged board...
"Steve" and Anjanette "Anji" Kalanick Arm. Her mother is the half-sister of Uber co-founder and former CEO TravisKalanick. At the age of four, her parents...
founded by TravisKalanick and Michael Todd in 2001. It was acquired by Akamai in 2007 for $19 million. Red Swoosh was founded by TravisKalanick and Michael...
Khosrowshahi became the CEO of Uber, succeeding co-founder and billionaire TravisKalanick. He was initially viewed as a "dark horse" candidate in case the initial...
switch deployed during police raids to conceal data. Former Uber CEO TravisKalanick dismissed concerns from other executives that sending Uber drivers...
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redress. In the months preceding the NY Times story on Harvey Weinstein, TravisKalanick (CEO of Uber at the time) came under fire for enabling a misogynistic...
widely shared and ultimately led to the ouster of Uber founder and CEO TravisKalanick. As of July 2023[update], she is the editor of Slate's "Future Tense"...
vacant chief executive officer position, following the resignation of TravisKalanick. In September 2017, she led the Bank of America's European bank board...
"TravisKalanick is buying a new company that rehabs real estate and will run it as CEO". Recode. Retrieved March 25, 2018. "Briefing: TravisKalanick...
history of Uber since its founding by Garrett Camp as UberCab in 2009. TravisKalanick, who would later run the company and become its largest shareholder...
replacing founder TravisKalanick. He was initially Kalanick's favorite for the post, in part because he was still open to Kalanick still having a significant...
April 12, 2021. Bhuiyan, Johana (December 14, 2016). "Elon Musk and TravisKalanick are joining Donald Trump's strategic and policy forum". Vox. Archived...
Yahoo during 2013 and 2014. In 2017, she defended Former Uber CEO TravisKalanick from allegations of sexual misconduct, stating he was "unaware of the...
Truckee in the mountains close to Lake Tahoe. Entrepreneurs including TravisKalanick and Sacca would spend hours discussing ideas at the residence, and...
invested $1.7 million in file-sharing company RedSwoosh, co-founded by TravisKalanick, providing much-needed capital to the company after the early 2000s...
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