Travis Kalanick
San Francisco, California
Drop Out, University of California, Los Angeles
United States
Uber Technologies Inc.
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Uber, Self Made
$5,400,000,000
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#298 Billionaires 2019
#104 Forbes 400 2018
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. The majority of his fortune lies in his roughly 7% stake of Uber, which listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in early May 2019.
Kalanick dropped out of UCLA in 1998 to work on Scour full-time with some classmates. Scour was later sued by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America before filing for bankruptcy in 2000.
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