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Cofounder and Chairman, Uber Technologies Inc. Uber chairman Garrett Camp cofounded the ride-hailing startup with Travis Kalanick in 2009. The Uber mobile phone app lets users request a ride...
- Cofounder And Chairman
- Early Life and Education
- Notable Accomplishments
- Wealth and Philanthropy
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Garrett Camp was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He completed his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary between 1996 and 2001, which was followed by a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Software Engineering from the same institution between 2001 and 2005. While still in graduate school, Camp and three c...
StumbleUpon
The unique platform took off. StumbleUpon moved to the San Francisco area in 2006, after it successfully secured $1.2 million in funding from angel investors. As CEO, Camp moved with it (he has resided in the U.S. ever since). Ebay Inc (EBAY) acquired StumbleUpon in 2007 for $75 million. Camp continued to run it, but—frustrated by the lack of flexibility and control—he bought in back in 2009. As the CEO of the newly independent company, Garrett led the successful run with a five-fold increase...
Uber
In early 2009, Camp, along with Travis Kalanick, co-founded the car-hire company called UberCab, later to become Uber Technologies ((UBER), but popularly known as Uber across the globe. Kalanick became CEO, while Camp joined the board of directors, serving as chair for several years. The service was launched in the San Francisco area in mid-2010 and gradually expanded across other U.S. cities and other international locations. It added different variants of service—namely, UberX, Uber SUV, an...
Expa
In May 2013, Camp founded Expa. Expa serves as a global network of entrepreneurs who help the peer-supported creation of businesses and companies. Since its inception, Expa has successfully launched or invested in more than 30 ventures and raised over $1 billion in funding for them. Its Expa Studio division provides workspaces, operational support, and technical advice for startupsand young firms as well. In October 2015, Camp made a fresh attempt at an internet search tool, somewhat on the l...
Garrett Camp is ranked No. 655 on Forbesmagazine's list of global billionaires for 2021. He recently started the Camp Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to support research into infrastructure, sustainability, and conservation projects that will have a significant global impact. The foundation is currently focusing on Every.org, a 501(c)(3)s...
Garrett Camp is a billionaire entrepreneur who specializes in technologically innovative ventures. His best-known enterprises have all involved the internet, the cloud, and mobile devices; they have brought the digital into daily life, and some of the most successful—like Uber—have significantly disrupted it.
As of February 2024, Camp's net worth is calculated at US$6.18 billion, making him the fifteenth-richest Canadian, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
1. Apr. 2022 · Seed funded with $1.5 million by storied angel Ram Shriram among others, StumbleUpon would go on to be acquired several months later by eBay for $75 million. Then Camp’s career really took off....
1. Feb. 2024 · Profil Garrett Camp bei Forbes Erneut: heute 01.02.2024 * Basierend auf Daten von Forbes, Bloomberg, Business d'Or, Fortune, The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times und Kiplinger.
9. Mai 2019 · In the case of Uber Technologies Inc., the answer is $3.7 billion. That’s the value of the stake held by Garrett Camp, the inventor of Uber, ahead of the company’s first day of stock trading...
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