Garrett Camp | |
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 Camp in 2018 | |
| Born | October 4, 1978 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Calgary (BSc & MSc) |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, investor, software engineer |
| Title | Founder of Expa Co-founder & Board member of Uber Founder & Chairman of StumbleUpon |
| Website | garrettcamp |
Garrett Camp (born October 4, 1978) is a Canadian businessman, investor, and software engineer. [1] [2] He helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber. [3] He lives in Los Angeles. [4]
Camp was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [5] His father was an economist, and his mother an artist; both later became home builders. [4] In 2001 he graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Later he earned a master's degree in software engineering with a focus on collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms, and information retrieval. [5]
In 2002, Camp co-founded StumbleUpon. It was the first personalized search engine platform. [3] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] In 2007, StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay [12] and in 2009 StumbleUpon was spun-out. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Following its spin-off, Camp worked to expand its services [16] and grow the company. [19] In 2012, Camp left StumbleUpon. [20]
In 2014, Camp founded Expa Labs with the goal of growing new companies. [21] In 2015, Camp reacquired StumbleUpon. [22] It operated until 2018, when it transitioned to Mix, a venture built in part through Expa Labs. [23] [24]
In 2009, Camp founded Uber as UberCab [25] [26] [27] In 2011, the company continued to expand across the United States and abroad. [28] [29] In 2020, Camp left Uber's board of directors but remained a board observer. [30]
In 2022, Camp was portrayed by actor Jon Bass in Super Pumped, a drama series based on Uber. [31]
In the past, Camp has invested in Prism Skylabs; [32] and BlackJet, an on-demand private aviation service. [33]
In 2007, Camp was named to the List of Top Innovators under the age of 35 at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. [34] [35] In 2008, Camp was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs. [36] In 2013, Camp was honored at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for his accomplishments at both StumbleUpon and Uber. [37]
In 2015, Camp was the 283rd-richest person in the world and the third-richest Canadian, with an estimated wealth of US$5.3 billion, according to Forbes . [38] As of February 2024, Camp's net worth is calculated at US$6.18 billion, making him the fifteenth-richest Canadian, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. [39]
In 2017, Camp joined The Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away half of his wealth to charity. [40]
In June 2019, after Camp purchased a mansion in Trousdale Estates of Beverly Hills for $72.5 million, [41] [42] Uber drivers struggling for higher pay and better working conditions picketed his home. [43] [44]
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