| Garrett Camp | |
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Camp in 2009
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| Born | October 4, 1978 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Founder at Expa Founder & Chairman at Uber Founder & Chairman at StumbleUpon |
| Net worth |  US$6.9 billion |
| Website | garrettcamp |
Garrett Camp (born October 4, 1978) is a Canadian businessman and investor. He co-founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery platform, while in graduate school at the University of Calgary in 2002 and co-founded Uber, an on-demand car service available via a mobile application in 2009. Garrett serves as Chairman for both StumbleUpon and Uber.
Career
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is the first web-discovery platform and personalized recommendation engine, co-founded by Garrett in 2002. In 2006 StumbleUpon relocated to San Francisco upon receiving its first round of funding from Silicon Valley angels. In 2007 StumbleUpon was listed in TIME’s 50 Best Websites and in TIME’s 50 Must-Have iPad Apps in 2013. StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay for $75M in 2007 and later spun-out in 2009, becoming an independent company again. Garrett grew the company to over one hundred employees and over 25 million registered users as its founding CEO before stepping down in mid 2012 to work on other ventures. In August 2015, StumbleUpon was in financial debt and was re-acquired by Garrett Camp, who re-gained a majority share of the company after resetting all previous shareholders at $0/share. StumbleUpon continues to have functional web and mobile apps.
Camp is the co-founder of Uber Technologies that had revenue of $11 billion in 2018. The mobile car-booking service operates in more than 700 cities worldwide and its users made 17 million trips a day in 2018. It also operates delivery service Uber Eats and logistics unit Uber Freight. Camp is the founder of Expa, an early-stage venture incubator.
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