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Travis Kalanick

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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. Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Travis Kalanick has received more than 7,632,008 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Travis Kalanick is the 807th most popular businessperson (down from 663rd in 2019), the 16,316th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,813th in 2019) and the 293rd most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 7.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 33.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Travis Kalanick ranks 807 out of 847Before him are Ursula Burns, William R. Orthwein, Aliya Nazarbayeva, Janus Friis, Zhou Qunfei, and Sunita Narain. After him are Håkon Wium Lie, Tom Hicks, Mira Murati, Sunil Mittal, Arvind Krishna, and Scott Forstall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Travis Kalanick ranks 726Before him are Omri Katz, Ruud Jolie, Roman Sharonov, Oleg Tverdovsky, Andreas Klier, and Robin Atkin Downes. After him are Lucía Puenzo, Sylvain N'Diaye, Takao Suzuki, Aki Riihilahti, Lee Ingleby, and Sala Baker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Travis Kalanick ranks 16,316 out of 20,380Before him are Kevin Asano (1963), Jim Cornette (1961), Ruthie Bolton (1967), Rainbow Rowell (1973), Jack McBrayer (1973), and Ethan Peck (1986). After him are Lindsay Sloane (1977), Andre Ward (1984), Natalie Morales (1985), Amanda Detmer (1971), Alex Acker (1983), and Kristin Hersh (1966).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Travis Kalanick ranks 293Before him are Joel Spolsky (1965), Jack Abramoff (1959), Mike Lindell (1961), Sam Bankman-Fried (1992), Ursula Burns (1958), and William R. Orthwein (1881). After him are Tom Hicks (1946), Scott Forstall (1968), Alexis Ohanian (1983), Dick Costolo (1963), Andrew Puzder (1950), and Tony Hsieh (1973).