Travis Kalanick

Travis Cordell Kalanick 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, who founded ride-hailing firm Uber in 2009, stepped down as CEO in June 2017 after a series of scandals rocked the company.
• In March 2018, Kalanick announced a new venture fund, 10100, which combines his nonprofit and for-profit investments.
• Kalanick is now CEO of City Storage Systems, a holding company focused on redeveloping distressed real estate.
• Kalanick cofounded two tech startups before Uber: online file-exchange service Scour and file-sharing company RedSwoosh.
• Kalanick owns about 4% of Uber and has voting control over another 1% owned by other stockholders.
• He put about $1 billion worth of Uber shares into a charitable trust from which he gets an annual payout.