To look at the brief history of successful billionaire Travis Kalanick Uber founder

For 5 years, he opened Travis Kalanick trucking service provider around the world named UberCab its headquarters in San Francisco, USA. After successful quickly UberCab renamed as Uber, which is now the company has access services in 300 cities in 58 different countries, and the company's total shares has been estimated at $ 60 billion.   

1) Uber CEO Travis Kalanick grew in Northridge, California, a suburb of Los Angeles when he was young Travis Kalanick wants to be a spy.   

2) But Kalanick followed his step-mother, who is an entrepreneur retail. As a child he Kalanick walked from house to house to sell knives for Cutco. He started the first business when he was 18 years old.   

3) Kalanick enrolled at the University of California studied computer engineering, but he abandoned his studies in 1988.   

4) After abandoning his studies Kalanick opened a business called scour with two other classmates, Michael Todd and Vince Busam focus on search find a song or video entertainment business receive support from friends and family finance.   

5) after receivingmany complaints from other entertainment companies copying music worth to 250 billion million company scour declared bankruptcy. After failing the first time, Mr. Kalanick launched a new business called Red Swoosh, a supplier connection computer network.   

6) work in the new company, Kalanick collision with another co-founder, his friend is Michael Todd. By 2007, he sold Kalanick company Red Swoosh to Akamai in a $ 23 million, which he started to become billionaire.   

7) After becoming a millionaire Kalanick spent 1 year traveling around the world. By the end of 2008 at the LeWeb tech conference he presented the idea of ​​creating Uber company that provides shipping services with value low.   

8) levels colleague Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar and Mr. Conrad Whelan has created a generation Uber named UberCab Kalanickthemselves act as consultant. UberCab that run on mobile phones and computers allows customers to rent a car just by sending the first, but the service is only available only in San Francisco.   

9) UberCab launched officially in June 2010 in San Francisco, which was very attractive from investors. Arrived in the summer of that year the company received income of $ 1.25 million from investors for its first round. By the end of 2010, Kalanick became CEO, and another of his friends Graves becomes manager.   

10) After the great success in San Francisco Uber has expanded its services to other cities in the United States. In May 2011, Uber launched its branch in New York, which now has become a big market of the company. Since 2011, Uber has announced that it has distributed logistics services in New York City with service users up to $ 30 million.   

11) by the end of 2011, the company launched its first overseas is Paris. At the end of the same year, Uber received investment with China Baidu, which makes Uber expand in the Asian territories. Uberhas received an extra $ 6.61 billion in revenue, and check the company's total assets of about $ 50 billion.   

12) In addition to this, Uber added service that enables users to order food from other services UberFreshThe service is now named UberEats. Through May Uber received researchers from Carnegie Mellon University to lead the car maker opens automatically .

Source: businessinsider.com