Travis Kalanick Net Worth 2024

Travis kalanick net worth 2024: 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.

Travis kalanick net worth and Biography

Net worth	$3 billion
Date of birth	August 6, 1976
Occupation	businessman
nationality	American

As of 2024, Travis kalanick net worth is valued $3 billion. He is the co-founder of Uber and one the richest people in the world

Kalanick was born on August 6, 1976, and grew up in Northridge, California. Kalanick’s parents are Bonnie Renée Horowitz Kalanick (née Bloom) and Donald Edward Kalanick. Bonnie, whose family were Viennese Jews who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 20th century, worked in retail advertising for the Los Angeles Daily News.

Donald, from a Slovak-Austrian Catholic family whose grandparents immigrated to the United States from the Austrian city of Graz, was a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles.

Travis kalanick net worth is valued $3 billion

Kalanick has two half-sisters, one of whom is the mother of actress Allisyn Ashley Arm, and a brother who is a firefighter.

In middle and high school, Kalanick was known to be competitive and driven to win. As a teenager, Kalanick sold knives door-to-door for direct sales company Cutco. At 18, he started a test preparation company called “New Way Academy” with the father of a classmate.

Travis kalanick’s net worth is valued $3 billion

 After graduating from Granada Hills Charter High School, Kalanick studied computer engineering and business economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

 While studying at UCLA, Kalanick was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. In 1998, he dropped out to work at the start-up Scour full-time

In 1998, Kalanick, along with Michael Todd and Vince Busam, dropped out of UCLA to work for Dan Rodrigues, founder of Scour Inc., a multimedia search engine, and Scour Exchange, a peer-to-peer file sharing service.

Kalanick handled sales and marketing for Scour. He has referred to himself as a co-founder of the company, but the other co-founders have disputed this.

Travis kalanick’s net worth is valued $3 billion

In 2000, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) brought a $250 billion lawsuit against Scour, alleging copyright infringement. In September 2000, Scour filed for Chapter 11bankruptcy to protect itself from the lawsuit

In San Francisco, Kalanick used the money he had made from the sale of Red Swoosh to make small investments in startups. He positioned himself as a “fixer” for startup problems such as talking to investors or hiring new staff.

He primarily invested in tech startups like Expensify, Livefyre, Crowdflower, and Formspring. Unsatisfied with only being an investor, he began to treat his Castro District apartment – termed the “JamPad” – as an informal salon for young tech enthusiasts

Travis kalanick net worth

As of 2024, Travis kalanick net worth is valued $3 billion.

Source: Glusea