\nN\u0103scut \u00een octombrie 1978, Camp a urmat cursurile Universit\u0103\u0163ii din Calgary, ob\u0163in\u00e2nd o diplom\u0103 \u00een inginerie electric\u0103. \u00cen 2007, el a fost inclus pe lista TR35 a Masachussetts Institute of Technology, care \u00eei include pe cei mai inovatori tineri de sub 35 de ani.<\/p>\n
\nUn an mai t\u00e2rziu a fost numit unul dintre cei mai buni tineri antreprenori din domeniul IT de c\u0103tre revista Bloomberg BusinessWeek.<\/p>\n
\n\u00cen 2009, Garrett Camp \u015fi Travis Kalanick au pus bazele Uber, o aplica\u0163ie care permite utilizatorilor s\u0103 fie \u00een permanen\u0163\u0103 conecta\u0163i cu serviciile oferite de taximetri\u015fti. \u00cen mai pu\u0163in de un an de la lansare, succesul s\u0103u a \u00eenceput s\u0103 modeleze industria. Mai exact, odat\u0103 ce contul a fost creat, utilizatorul poate cere o ma\u015fin\u0103 \u00een regim de taxi \u00een oricare din ora\u015fele \u00een care opereaz\u0103 Uber. \u015eoferii nu sunt angaja\u0163i ai Uber, dar pl\u0103tesc un comision c\u0103tre companie pentru a putea fi lista\u0163i. Un alt aspect extrem de important este c\u0103 plata se face prin telefon, astfel c\u0103 serviciile pot fi apelate \u015fi atunci c\u00e2nd utilizatorul nu dispune de bani cash.<\/p>\n
\nDe la lansarea \u00een San Francisco, \u00een urm\u0103 cu patru ani, Uber s-a extins \u00een 128 de ora\u015fe din 37 de \u0163\u0103ri. Cea mai recent\u0103 rund\u0103 de finan\u0163are, la \u00eenceputul anului 2014, a adus 1,4 miliarde dolari \u00een conturile Uber. Evaluat\u0103 la 17 miliarde de dolari, compania este acum cel mai valoros start-up finan\u0163at de investitori, dep\u0103\u015find Airbnb (evaluat la 10 miliarde).<\/p>\n
\nAnul trecut, Camp a fondat Expa, un accelerator de start-up-uri menit s\u0103 descopereze noi businessuri cu poten\u0163ial. El a promovat proiectul folosindu-se de experien\u0163a sa de peste zece ani \u00een antreprenoriat, dezvolt\u00e2nd o platform\u0103 care ofer\u0103 sfaturi \u015fi direc\u0163ii pentru tinerii care vor s\u0103 porneasc\u0103 o afacere.<\/p>\n
\nGarrett Camp a investit \u00een mai multe companii, printre care Prism Skylabs, o platform\u0103 de analiz\u0103 video, WillCall, o aplica\u0163ie ce permite achizi\u0163ionarea de bilete pentru concerte, \u015fi Behance, o re\u0163ea social\u0103 pentru exper\u0163ii din diferite domenii. Camp are o avere estimat\u0103 la 300 de milioane de dolari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Garrett Camp este un antreprenor canadian care a fondat companii precum StumbleUpon \u015fi Uber, \u00een cadrul c\u0103rora ocup\u0103 \u015fi func\u0163ia de CEO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[255,10403,125,272,201,5414,15797,472,448,274,161,8932,391,194,8292],"class_list":["post-112831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afaceri","tag-antreprenori","tag-aplicatie","tag-ceo","tag-companie","tag-companii","tag-cursuri","tag-diploma","tag-finantare","tag-functie","tag-incepere","tag-miliarde","tag-poveste","tag-schimbare","tag-tineri","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}