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Mar 6, 2022 · Garrett Camp came up with the idea for Uber but Kalanick pretended it was his. In the show's portrayal of the first meeting between Kalanick and Gurley, Kalanick appears to take credit for...
Oct 25, 2023 · Portrayed by actor Jon Bass in the drama series “Super Pumped” based on Uber. Throughout his career, Garrett Camp has been recognized for his disruptive innovations and technological advancements. His ventures, like StumbleUpon and Uber, have fundamentally shifted user behaviors and have been key players in the tech industry. ~ Life Lessons
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Mar 6, 2022 · The first episode of Super Pumped finds Kalanick acknowledging that the original concept came from friend Garrett Camp, making his pitch to venture capitalist Bill Gurley (Kyle Chandler) and...
- Ubercab: The Early Years
- Travis Kalanick Becomes CEO of Uber
- A Series of Scandals
- A Culture of Misogyny
- Travis Kalanick’s Ouster
- A Meddlesome Board Member
It seems like every big tech company has a moment where they shorten their name and then takeoff. As fans of The Social Network know, “The Facebook” preceded Facebook. Similarly, Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, an entrepreneur and computer programmer, as “Ubercab.” According to a timeline by Business Insider, one of th...
At the end of 2010, Travis Kalanick was given the top job at Uber. He took over for Ryan Graves, the company’s first employee, who remained with the company as an executive and board member. As CEO, Kalanick oversaw the public launch of the Uber service throughout the country. In May, the app went live in New York City. It hit the streets of Chicag...
You know your company has problems when it’s the subject of an article titled “49 of the biggest scandals in Uber’s history.” The list of scandals includes continued price gouging. This included a spike in prices, for example, during Hurricane Sandy. Another, more grotesque event occurred in September 2013. A Black woman named Bridget Todd made hea...
Uber’s culture of misogyny became apparent through a number of public statements and company promotions. In 2014, for example, Travis Kalanick was asked, in a GQ profile, about the fame the company brought him as a bachelor in a GQ profile. He joked that Uber’s name was “Boober.” Later that year, in October, Uber’s branch in Lyon, France, launched ...
Eventually, the calls for change resulted in Travis Kalanick resigning from the company. But not before a number of other Uber executives left the company and/or resigned in disgrace. For example, Amit Singhal, then senior vice president of engineering at Uber, left the companyafter he was accused of sexual harassment during his time at Google. And...
After his resignation as CEO, Travis Kalanick remained on the board of Uber and exerted tremendous influence as the largest individual stockholder. In August 2017, Benchmark, a venture capital firm and one of Uber’s largest shareholders, sued Kalanick in an attempt to remove him from his board seat. According to a Times report from Isaacat the time...
Apr 1, 2022 · When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users ...
Feb 28, 2022 · Jon Bass (Garrett Camp) As Uber co-founder Garret Camp, we have Jon Bass, who, like JGL, also played a real-life lawyer once in 2016’s Loving and also played a fictionalized version of an...
Jan 12, 2022 · What some may not know is that the company actually has roots planted in Calgary, mainly through co-founder Garrett Camp, who will be portrayed in the upcoming drama series Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber.
