Uber Technologies
Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 15,000 cities worldwide. It is the largest ridesharing company worldwide with over 202 million monthly active users and 10 million active drivers and couriers. It coordinates an average of 42 million trips and delivery orders per day, and has coordinated 72 billion trips and delivery orders since its inception in 2010. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the company had a take rate (revenue as a percentage of gross bookings) of 29.9% for mobility services and 19.2% for food delivery. The company has launched or is in the process of launching robotaxi services in several cities worldwide in partnership with operators, software designers, and car manufacturers including Lucid Motors, Nuro, Baidu, Pony.ai, Avride, Nissan, Rivian, Zoox, Stellantis, Wayve, and Nvidia (to use the Nvidia Drive software).
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Who Founded Uber Technologies?
Travis Cordell Kalanick (; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber. Previously he worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application company, and was the co-founder of Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. He is currently CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, operator of ghost kitchens. Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017 after growing pressure from allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company. Kalanick retained his seat on the board of directors until he gave it up on December 31, 2019. Before he resigned, Kalanick sold approximately 90% of his shares in Uber for $2.5 billion. Kalanick is ranked 374th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $3.6 billion. In 2018, Kalanick started the 10100 Fund to invest in e-commerce, innovation and real estate in emerging markets such as China and India. That same year, Kalanick announced an investment of nearly $150 million in real estate redevelopment company City Storage Systems (renamed to Atoms); he also announced that he would be its CEO.
Frequently Asked Questions about Uber Technologies
Who runs Uber Technologies?
Leadership and ownership at Uber Technologies has evolved over its history. It was originally founded by Travis Kalanick, who established the vision for the company.
Who is responsible for Uber Technologies?
The founders, Travis Kalanick, were responsible for the initial creation and early success of Uber Technologies.