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Travis Kalanick

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Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American computer programmer and businessman.

Travis Kalanick at Startup School 2012 by Y Combinator

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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

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In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 290, with an estimated net worth of $6 billion.

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