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Travis Kalanick

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Travis Kalanick is an American businessman known as the co-founder and former CEO of Uber. Before Uber, he worked at the peer-to-peer file-sharing company Scour and co-founded Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network later sold to Akamai Technologies. He is currently CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, an operator of ghost kitchens, and has moved into robotics through the company. Atoms recently raised $1.7 billion to deploy AI in physical/robotics applications.

Updated 6 August 2026

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