The ascent of Uber, which was founded in 2009 following an incident where founders Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn’t hail a cab during a stay in Paris, has been meteoric. The company is one of the most valuable venture-backed startups in the world. But a valuation of more than...
Uber’s new net worth is $6.2 billion higher than it was just a month ago, when the companyraisedmoney at a roughly $12 billion level. Ten months ago the company was valued at $3.5 billion. Founded by CEO Travis Kalanick in 2009, Uber has expanded to 128 cities and 37 countries with...
The application prototype was built by Camp and his friends, while Uber co-founder, Travis Kalanick, who was also the co-founder of Scour and Red Swoosh, played the role of a mega advisor. Even though Kalanick joined the company, he gave Camp full credit for the idea. The application ...
Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick plans to sell nearly a third of his stake in the ride-hailing service, a news report said Thursday. The deal is part of a transaction with investors including Softbank Group Corp. and would bring Kalanick about $1.4 billion, Bloomberg report...
restaurant or have the meal delivered. The Freight segment focuses on connecting Carriers with Shippers on its platform, and gives Carriers upfront, transparent pricing, and the ability to book a shipment. The company was founded by Oscar Salazar Gaitan, Travis Kalanick, and Garrett Camp in 2009...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a memo to employees obtained byRecodethat Holder will be joined by Tammy Albarran, both partners at Covington & Burling. Board member Arianna Huffington, Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey, and Associate General Counsel Angela Padilla. ...
Uber was co-founded by Travis Kalanick, a bro-y alpha nerd who’s been coding since he was in sixth grade and whose first brush with success came in the late ’90s while he was still an undergrad at UCLA. (That venture, called Scour, an early experiment in Napster-type file sharing...
Schumpeter: Reinventing Uber 熊彼特:重塑优步 An action plan for the ride-sharing firm’s next chief executive 一份行动计划,供这家拼车公司下一任CEO参考 It is said that Travis Kalanick, who resigned as Uber’s boss in June, has been reading Shakespeare’s “Henry V”. Prince Hal’s transform...
Write-downs of the value of mutual funds' holdings of Uber may be just the start of investors' doubts about the company.
Over the past eight months, Uber has been engulfed in a corporate drama that is unlike anything Silicon Valley has ever seen. Its former chief executive Travis Kalanick was ousted by investors in June, leaving the company leaderless untilDara Khosrowshahiwas appointed in August. He has quickly ha...