Who among these was a founder of this company?
Ralph Lauren
Garrett Camp
Ankit Bhati
Brian Chesky
Answer: Garrett Camp
Garrett Camp is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur who has helped build a series of companies. These include founding StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool; co-founding Uber; and founding Expa, a startup studio.
Camp is chairman of Mix, the successor to StumbleUpon, and served on the board of directors of Uber until 2020.
The 43-year-old was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was an economist, and his mother an artist, and both later became home builders.
He graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2001. He earned a master’s degree in software engineering, researching collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval.
Camp founded Uber as UberCab in early 2009 while he was CEO of StumbleUpon. He self-funded his plan of $250K. Uber launched in San Francisco in mid 2010 with just a few cars on the road and, in late 2010, raised $1.25M in venture capital.
In 2011, the company continued to expand across the United States and abroad, including major markets such as New York City and Paris.
Uber was listed in Forbes’s Top 10 Companies of 2012, and was ranked number 6 in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2013.
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