Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp: Biography in Details

Who is Garrett Camp?

Garrett Camp is a native Canadian entrepreneur who is famous for his ground-breaking technology ventures.

Also, he is the founder of Expa, a startup studio that works to develop and launch new products where Expa focuses on product strategy, system design, and user experience.

Previously, he was the creator of Uber in 2009, to help people easily request car service via a mobile app.

Garrett Camp- Age, Parents, Ethnicity

On October 4, 1978, Garrett was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His parents’ names are unknown where Camp’s mother was an artist and his father was an economist.

His parents decided to change their careers and teamed up to become a design/build team who built houses. Young Garrett inherited his parents’ entrepreneurial spirit.

In which school did Garrett Camp attend?

After completing his schooling he enrolled at the University of Calgary for a degree in electrical engineering in 1996.

After his junior year, he moved to Montreal for an internship at Nortel Networks where he worked on speech recognition technology.

He returned to Calgary in 2000 to finish his degree. He then started working on his Master’s in Software Engineering and researched collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms, and information retrieval.

Social Media

Regarding his social media presence, Garrett has 6.7k followers on Instagram and 40.5k followers on Twitter whereas he is not active on Facebook, TikTok, and Youtube Accounts.

Garrett Camp- Professional Life, Career

While at the university he decided that he wanted to open his own business. He teamed with three of his friends Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd to discuss potential business ideas. The friends discussed five or six ideas before eventually deciding on creating a discovery engine.

Then, StumbleUpon was launched in 2002 while Camp was still at the university. The discovery engine was designed to help people find sites that are more targeted to their interests than they would be with a regular search engine.

The company became successful within a couple of years and its growing popularity attracted the attention of Silicon Valley angel investors. StumbleUpon was relocated to San Francisco in 2006 upon receiving its first round of funding from Silicon Valley angels. The founders sold StumbleUpon to eBay for $75 million in 2007.

However, they bought it back within a couple of years in 2009. StumbleUpon is now an independent, investor-backed startup once again.

In 2009 Camp launched another one of his innovative businesses. The idea for a cab service had been set in his mind for the past year and he collaborated with Travis Kalanick to found Uber (initially UberCab) in early 2009.

Uber is an on-demand car service available via a mobile application. The company received $200,000 in seed funding the same year it was launched and by 2010 had raised $1.25 million in additional funding.

Founded in San Francisco, it expanded to other cities including New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. by 2011. It proved to be a great success and by 2012 had started expanding internationally.

As an entrepreneur who co-founded two highly successful startups, Garrett decided to use his decade-long startup experience to build new companies. He founded Expa in 2013 to pursue this passion. Expo is a startup studio that works with founders to increase their startup’s chance of success.

Awards and Achievements

• In 2007, Garrett Camp was named to the TR35 List of Top Innovators under the age of 35 at Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.
• He was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of Tech’s Best Young Entrepreneurs in 2008.
• He was honored at the 2013 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for his accomplishments at both StumbleUpon and Uber.

How much is the net worth of Garrett Camp?

He has earned a huge amount from his profession working as an Entrepreneur and Creator.

As of 2022, it is reported that he has an estimated net worth of around $2.9 billion.

Rumors, Controversy

About his rumors and controversy, Uber’s co-founder, Garrett Camp signs off by saying he’s looking forward to helping Uber “brainstorm the next big idea”.

Body Features- Height, Weight

Camp has decent looks and an admirable personality. He stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches and has an average weight of 70 Kg.

Furthermore, he has hazel eyes whereas his hair is regular brown.

Trivia/Facts

• His zodiac is Libra.
• Garrett is 43 years old as of 2022.

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