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Mar 2, 2022 · Travis Kalanick declined to participate or consult at all on Showtime’s series about him. Instead, Super Pumped is based on New York Times reporter Mike Isaac’s book of the same name, as well ...
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May 10, 2019 · Ten years ago, Travis Kalanick launched a startup called UberCab in San Francisco. Now, Uber is a global behemoth, one of Silicon Valley's most successful companies — also one of the most ...
May 8, 2024 · Travis Kalanick (born August 6, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American entrepreneur who was the cofounding CEO (2009–17) of the ride-hailing app company Uber, which provided transportation by enabling users to page freelance drivers of privately owned vehicles via smartphones. Kalanick grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles.
Jun 21, 2017 · Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and built into a transportation colossus, after a shareholder revolt made it ...
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Sep 3, 2019 · That Travis Kalanick was, in fact, an asshole. Later that evening, Kalanick circulated an apology memo to his employees. They posted the memo to the company’s public blog the next morning.
Uber didn't start out with grand ambitions to cut congestion and pollution. But as the company took off, co-founder Travis Kalanick wondered if there was a way to get people using Uber along the same routes to share rides, reducing costs and carbon footprint along the way. The result: uberPOOL, the company's carpooling service, which in its first eight months took 7.9 million miles off the ...
Jan 18, 2018 · Kalanick was grieving from a recent family tragedy—his mother, Bonnie, was killed and his father, Donald, seriously injured in a boating accident in Fresno, Calif. After the accident, Kalanick ...
