Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick | |
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Kalanick in 2016 | |
| Born | August 6, 1976 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (dropped out) |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder of Red Swoosh Co-founder of Uber |
| Title | CEO of Atoms |
| 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. He is currently CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, operator of ghost kitchens.
Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017 after growing pressure from allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. Kalanick retained his seat on the board of directors until he gave it up on December 31, 2019. Before he resigned, Kalanick sold approximately 90% of his shares in Uber for $2.5 billion.
Kalanick is ranked 374th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $3.6 billion.
In 2018, Kalanick started the 10100 venture fund to invest in e-commerce, innovation and real estate in emerging markets such as 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.