13 Facts About Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp was born on October 4,1978 and is a Canadian-French businessman, investor, and software engineer.

Garrett Camp helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber.

Garrett Camp's father was an economist, and his mother an artist; both later became home builders.

In 2014, Garrett Camp founded Expa Labs with the goal of growing new companies.

In 2009, Garrett Camp founded Uber as UberCab In 2011, the company continued to expand across the United States and abroad.

In 2020, Garrett Camp left Uber's board of directors but remained a board observer.

In 2022, Garrett Camp was portrayed by actor Jon Bass in Super Pumped, a drama series based on Uber.

In 2007, Garrett Camp was named to the List of Top Innovators under the age of 35 at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.

In 2008, Garrett Camp was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs.

In 2013, Garrett Camp was honored at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for his accomplishments at both StumbleUpon and Uber.

In 2015, Garrett 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.

In 2017, Garrett Camp joined The Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away half of his wealth to charity.

In June 2019, after Garrett Camp purchased a mansion in Trousdale Estates of Beverly Hills for $72.5 million, Uber drivers struggling for higher pay and better working conditions picketed his home.