Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American computer programmer and businessman.
Travis Kalanick at Startup School 2012 by Y Combinator
He is the co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and the transportation network company Uber.
Red Swoosh was a peer-to-peer file sharing company founded by Travis Kalanick and Michael Todd in 2001 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007.
A transportation network company connects paying passengers with drivers who provide the transportation on their own non-commercial vehicles.
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
Travis Kalanick Interview by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 290, with an estimated net worth of $6 billion.