The story
Camp pitched a black car service for San Francisco after he and Kalanick brainstormed at a conference in Paris in late 2008. It launched there in 2010 as UberCab, then fought regulators city by city on the way to going public in 2019.
No. 028 · 2009 · San Francisco
Uber
Couldn't get a cab in Paris. Rage-built a global taxi.
The Uber for Ubers
Make my startup a legend- 1 Paris, 2008. Snow. No cabs.
- 2 One tap, a black car.
- 3 San Francisco gets the first fleet.
- 4 2010: city tells them to stop.
- 5 They drop the word cab. Keep going.
- 6 City by city, regulators chase.
- 7 Then came surge pricing.
- 8 Every pitch since: Uber for X.
- Founders
- Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp
- Founded
- 2009, San Francisco
- What they do
- Rides and food delivery on your phone.