Garrett Camp Biography
Updated on June 11, 2024
Full Name: Garrett Camp
Date of Birth: October 4, 1978
Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Nationality: Canada
Education: University of Calgary (BSc, MSc)
Occupation: Founder, Expa Co-founder & board member, Uber
Founder & chairman, StumbleUpon
Website: garrettcamp.com
Garrett Camp Biography:
- Garrett Camp is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur.
- He was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was an economist, and his mother an artist, and both later became home builders.
- He graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2001, and later earned a master’s degree in software engineering, researching collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval.
- He has helped build a series of companies, including founding StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool, co-founding Uber,[citation needed] and founding Expa, a startup studio.[citation needed] Camp is chairman of Mix, the successor to StumbleUpon, and is on the board of directors of Uber.
- In 2006, StumbleUpon relocated to San Francisco, after receiving its first round of funding from Silicon Valley angel investors. In 2007, StumbleUpon was included on the Time magazine’s “50 Best Websites” list, and on its 2013 “50 Must-Have iPad Apps” list.
- Camp founded Uber as UberCab in early 2009 while he was CEO of StumbleUpon, and self-funded the seed round of $250K.
- It is currently working on a cryptocurrency he calls Eco. Camp is striving to make it a digital global currency that facilitates daily transactions between business as a form of payment in order to improve commonly occurring issues with digital currencies.
( Last Updated : 07 December 2023)
