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Travis Kalanick

トラビス・カラニック　/　とらびす・からにっく

American entrepreneur

August 6, 1976 (age 49)　・　Los Angeles, California, United States

California
entrepreneur
businessperson
computer scientist

My Take

Kalanick is the purest distillation of the disruptor archetype I can think of. Long before Uber, he was already chasing the same idea through peer-to-peer file sharing and content delivery, technologies built on connecting people directly. Uber was just that obsession scaled to the physical world. What I respect is the sheer relentlessness; what I find instructive is how that same intensity got him pushed out of the company he built. He embodies the messy, uncomfortable truth about world-changing founders: the temperament that creates the empire is often the one that cannot be allowed to keep running it.

Overview

Travis Cordell Kalanick (; born August 6, 1976) 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.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Travis Kalanick
Name (Japanese): トラビス・カラニック
Reading: とらびす・からにっく
Born: August 6, 1976 (age 49)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Dragon
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: entrepreneur / businessperson / computer scientist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Granada Hills Charter High School
University: University of California, Los Angeles

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/traviskal/
Xhttps://x.com/travisk
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20Kalanick

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