Ryan Graves
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Miami University of Ohio
United States
uber, Self Made
$1,500,000,000
1425
#1425 Billionaires 2019
#12 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016
Ryan Graves was the first employee hired at ride-hailing service Uber in 2010.He was CEO for a brief period in 2010, then president and most recently SVP of Global Operations, working as a "resident entrepreneur and builder."He announced he was resigning from Uber in August 2017, two months after cofounder Travis Kalanick was forced to resign as CEO.Graves continues to serve as a board member of Uber; he owns about 2% of the company's shares.
Graves got his job by tweeting at Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick: "here's a tip. email me :)" when Kalanick was looking for a product manager. Before Uber, Graves worked at GE and was an unpaid intern at Foursquare.
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