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Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides Ridesharing company, ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 15,000 cities worldwide. It is the largest ridesharing company worldwide with over 150 million monthly active users and 6 million active drivers and couriers. It coordinates an average of 28 million trips per day, and has coordinated 47 billion trips since its inception in 2010. In 2023, the company had a take rate (revenue as a percentage of gross bookings) of 28.7% for mobility services and 18.3% for food delivery. History In 2009, Garrett Camp, a co-founder of StumbleUpon, came up with the idea to create Uber to make it easier and cheaper to procure direct transportation. Camp and Travis Kalanick had spent $800 hiring a private driver on New Year's Eve, which they deemed excessive, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Kalanick
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. He resigned from Uber in 2017, after growing pressure resulting from public reports of the company's unethical corporate culture, including allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. Kalanick retained his seat on the board of directors until he resigned the seat on December 31, 2019. In the weeks leading up to the resignation, Kalanick sold off approximately 90% of his shares in Uber, for a profit of about $2.5 billion. Following the sale, in 2017, Kalanick was ranked 238th on the ''Forbes'' 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $2.6&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uber Eats
Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the company Uber in 2014. It is operational in over 6,000 cities in 45 countries as of 2021. History Uber Eats' parent company Uber was founded in 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. The company began food delivery in August 2014 with the launch of the UberFRESH service in Santa Monica, California. In 2015, the platform was renamed UberEats and the ordering software was released a standalone application initially launching in Toronto. In 2016, it commenced operations in both London and Paris. In August 2018, Uber Eats changed its flat $4.99 delivery fee to a rate that is determined by distances. The fee ranges from a $2 minimum to an $8 maximum. In the UK and Ireland, the delivery fee is based on the value of the order. In February 2019, Uber Eats announced that it would reduce its fee from 35 percent of the order's value to 30 percent. As part of its expansion into foreign markets, the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridesharing Company
A ridesharing company (or ridehailing service) is a company (or service offered by a company) that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street. The vehicles used in ridesharing/ridehailing service are called app-taxis or e-taxis. Ridesharing companies were founded beginning in the 2010s, after the proliferation of the Internet and mobile apps. In the 2020s, a few companies began offering rides in Robotaxi, self-driving taxis. The legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction varies; in some areas they are considered to be illegal taxi operations, while in other areas, they are subject to regulations that can include requirements for driver background checks, fares, caps on the number of drivers in an area, insurance, licensing, and minimum wage. Studies have shown that ridesharing companies have created net jobs and improved the efficiency of drivers of vehicles for hire du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi (, ; born May 28, 1969) is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. He was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators. He is on the board of directors of BET.com and Hotels.com, and was on the board of The New York Times Company. Early life and education Khosrowshahi was born in 1969 in Iran into a prominent, wealthy family and grew up in a mansion on his family's compound. He is the youngest of three children born to Lili and Asghar (Gary) Khosrowshahi. His family founded the Alborz Investment Company, a diversified conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, distribution, packaging, trading, and services. In 1978, just before the Iranian Revolution, his family was targeted for its wealth and his mother decided to leave everything behind and flee the country. Their company was later nationalized. His family first fled to southern France. They were planni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Careem
Careem is a Dubai-based super-app with operations in over 70 cities, covering 10 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia regions. It offers ride-hailing, bicycle rental, food delivery, grocery delivery, and digital wallets. It is 50.03% owned by e&, while its ridesharing company is wholly owned by Uber. History Careem was founded by Mudassir Sheikha, an American Memon of Pakistani origin, and Magnus Olsson of Sweden, who had both worked as management consultants at McKinsey & Company. It started operating in 2012 as a website-based service for corporate car bookings, and evolved to become a ridesharing company with car hire for everyday use. In 2015, the company acquired a Saudi-based home delivery service company, enwani, and Abdulla Elyas joined Careem as co-founder. In 2017, the company announced a program to extend maternity leave and hire more women. In June 2017, Careem launched operations in Palestine as part of a commitment to create one million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrett Camp
Garrett Camp (born October 4, 1978) is a Canadian-French businessman, investor, and software engineer. He helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber. He lives in Los Angeles. Early life and education Camp was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was an economist, and his mother an artist; both later became home builders. 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. Career In 2002, Camp co-founded StumbleUpon. It was the first personalized search engine platform. In 2007, StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay and in 2009 StumbleUpon was spun-out. Following its spin-off, Camp worked to expand its services and grow the company. In 2012, Camp left StumbleUpon. In 2014, Camp founded Expa Labs with the goal of growing new companies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uber Carshare
Uber Carshare was an Australian company that facilitated peer-to-peer car rental, a system by which individuals may rent privately owned vehicles on an hourly or daily basis to other registered users of the service. History Established in 2012 as Car Next Door, it operated in all Australian capital cities as well as the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Newcastle. Caltex Australia (later Ampol) invested in the company in 2016. Ampol sold its 17.2% interest for on 24 December 2021. Hyundai invested in the company in 2019, and listed a number of its electric Ioniq vehicles for sharing through the platform. On 20 January 2022, the company was acquired by Uber for an undisclosed sum, but believed to be $105 million. This was Uber's first Australian acquisition. The company continued operating independently following Uber's takeover with co-founder Will Davies as the chief executive until November 2022 when it was rebranded as Uber Carshare. In August 2024, Uber announced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postmates
Postmates Inc. is an American food delivery service, founded in 2011, and acquired by Uber in 2020. It offers local delivery of restaurant-prepared meals and other goods. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. , Postmates operates in 2,940 U.S. cities. Postmates primarily competes with Grubhub, DoorDash, and its sister service Uber Eats. The company has been sued for alleged antitrust price manipulation. History Postmates was founded in 2011 by Bastian Lehmann, Sean Plaice, and Sam Street. In December 2014, Postmates opened its application programming interface to merchants to allow small businesses to compete in the business of consumer goods delivery with larger companies such as Amazon. In November 2017, Postmates launched its service in Mexico City, its first location outside the United States. It ceased operations in Mexico in December 2019, citing a lack of growth and a desire to focus more on the U.S. market. In 2018, Postmates launched its service in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Delivery
Food delivery is a courier service in which a restaurant, store, or independent food-delivery company delivers food to a customer. An order is typically made either by telephone, through the supplier's website or mobile app, or through a third party food ordering service. The delivered items can include entrees, sides, drinks, desserts, or grocery items and are typically delivered in boxes or bags. The delivery person will normally drive a car, but in bigger cities where homes and restaurants are closer together, they may use bikes or motorized scooters. Due to shifting habits in response to lockdowns and restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, online food delivery through third-party companies has become a growing industry and caused a "delivery revolution." Nascent technologies, such as autonomous vehicles have also been used to complete deliveries. Customers can, depending on the delivery company, choose to pay online or in person, with cash or card. A flat rate deliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
