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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Automotive Industries page on 1 June 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman. He is the co-founder of Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application; Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network; and Uber, a transportation network company. Red Swoosh was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Kalanick is the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, a position he held from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017, after controversy over the company's reported unethical culture, including allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. In the weeks leading up to a December 24th, 2019 announcement that he would resign his Board seat effective December 31, Kalanick sold off approximately 90% of his shares in Uber.
Kalanick is ranked 238th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $3.1 billion.
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| 13 June 2017 | Uber CEO Takes Leave of Absence Amid Controversies | VOA News |