Travis Kalanick was the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, the ride-hailing company. He was instrumental in the company's growth from a small startup to a multi-billion dollar business. Kalanick stepped down as CEO in 2017 amid controversy and
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Travis Cordell Kalanick 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.