Travis Kalanick

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Travis Kalanick (2013)

Travis Cordell Kalanick (born August 6, 1976 in Los Angeles ) is an American entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of Uber .

Training and first entrepreneurial activity

Kalanick attended Granada Hills High School and studied computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1998 he broke off his studies and founded various companies, including a. the file sharing company Scour. Scour failed when the American music and film industries sued them for $ 250 billion in copyright infringement. In 2001 he founded Red Swoosh , which Akamai acquired in 2007 for $ 18.7 million.

Over

In 2009, Kalanick and Garrett Camp founded Uber. This company wants to revolutionize the passenger transport market , which is heavily regulated in most countries, by means of a taxi app and a website. To achieve this goal, Uber must remove legal and administrative barriers to strong opposition in many countries. Kalanick's stance is clear from the following quote:

"We are in a political campaign in which the candidate is called Uber and the opponent is an asshole called Taxi."

Kalanick has the novel The Fountainhead of the libertarian writer Ayn Rand described as one of his favorite books and used the cover as your profile picture on Twitter. In 2015, however, he denied in an interview that he liked Rand's books; he didn't even know what a libertarian was.

In 2017, he stepped down as CEO of Uber after being asked to do so by five investors who collectively hold more than 40% of the voting rights in the company.

capital

Travis Kalanick is a billionaire and one of the richest Americans. His net worth is about $ 4.8 billion , according to Forbes' 2018 list. This puts him at number 422 on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.

Political activity

Kalanick has been advising US President Donald Trump since December 2016 as a member of his Strategic and Policy Forum . On February 2, 2017, he announced his resignation from this position. After speaking to him, he said that his participation had been misunderstood and was not intended to support President Trump or his agenda. Previously, after it became known, there were calls on the Internet to boycott the transport service.

reception

Andrew Keen criticized Kalanick with the words: "He embodies the worst kind of hubris and arrogance of the libertarian entrepreneur."

Web links

Commons : Travis Kalanick  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Isaac: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as CEO In: The New York Times . June 21, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 21, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Phil Hampton: Q&A with Travis Kalanick, Uber co-founder and CEO and a former UCLA student. In: UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Travis Kalanick: A fighter on his own behalf . In: Finance and Economy . ( fuw.ch [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
  4. ^ Payday for Red Swoosh: $ 15 million from Akamai , April 12, 2007
  5. ↑ Astrid Maier: How the transport operator Uber wants to roll over the world. In: manager magazin . October 20, 2014, accessed August 24, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Jan Heidtmann: Uber and the taxi trade - legend of the harmless start-up , Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 2, 2014
  7. ↑ About CEO Travis Kalanick backpedals on his Ayn Rand fandom . September 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ What Makes Uber Run . In: Fast Company . September 8, 2015.
  9. ↑ Mike Isaac: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as CEO In: The New York Times . June 21, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 .
  10. ^ Forbes profile , accessed October 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ Selected advisory staff. Musk, Kalanick, Dimon: These company bosses are supposed to teach Trump economics. wallstreet online, December 15, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Dave Lee: Uber boss quits Trump advisory board. BBC News, February 2, 2017, accessed February 2, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Uber boss leaves Trump advisory board. In: Spiegel Online. February 2, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Internet critic Andrew Keen: "The Silicon Valley superman is a robber baron" , Spiegel Online, January 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kalanick, Travis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalanick, Travis C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur (Uber)
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles