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Travis Kalanick Biography

Travis Kalanick

Travis Cordell Kalanick (/ˈkælənɪk/) (born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder of Scour, a peer to peer file sharing application, Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network, and Uber, a transportation network company. Red Swoosh was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007.[citation needed] Kalanick resigned from Uber in 2017 after reports that sexual harassment occurred under his tenure. He remains a shareholder and board-member.

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The world is going to go self-driving and autonomous. Because a million fewer people are going to die a year. Traffic in all cities will be gone. Significantly reduced pollution and trillions of hours will be given back to people - quality of life goes way up.

Autonomous, Fewer, People, Quality, Reduced, World

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

Bring, Dark, Evil, Sides, Truth

There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.

Lined, Liquidity, Numbers, Part, People, Together

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

Ability, Creativity, Growth, Money, People, Ways

When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.

Car, Cheaper, Cost, Dude, Magic, Uber

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

Car, Drive, Goal, Taking, Uber, Whole

We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.

Cross, Logistics, Thinking, Uber

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Fighting, Innovation, Intense, Place, Red, Tape

You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'

Asking, Married, Next, Somebody, Wife

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

Antidote, Entrepreneur, Fear, Hustle

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

Average, Buy, Elegance, Iphone, Nice, Phones

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

Entrepreneur, Limits, Metal, Trying

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

Blue, Focused, Good, Possible, Red, Want

There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.

50000, Creating, Jobs, Uber

Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

Deal, Done, Fundraising, Keep, Nice

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it.

Hustle, Disease, Antidote

If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable. . . When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.

Fierceness, Guy, Littles, Uncomfortable, Way