Travis Kalanick

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Travis Cordell Kalanick (; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber. Previously he worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application company, and was the co-founder of Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. He is currently CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, operator of ghost kitchens. Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017.

Associated with CloudKitchens(founder) Red Swoosh(co founder) Scour(co founder) Uber(co founder)

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