Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp (born April 4, 1981) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Uber, the revolutionary ridesharing platform that transformed urban transportation globally. Born in Missouri, Camp initially founded StumbleUpon, a discovery platform, in 2007, which he subsequently sold to eBay for $75 million. In 2009, frustrated by the difficulty of hailing a taxi in San Francisco, Camp conceptualized Uber as a solution leveraging smartphones and GPS technology. Along with Travis Kalanick, he built Uber from a local service into a global phenomenon operating in hundreds of cities across multiple continents. Camp's vision of the 'on-demand economy' sparked a broader technological and cultural shift toward platform-based services. Beyond Uber, Camp has been active as a venture capitalist and investor through his firm Lowercase Capital, backing numerous successful startups. His philanthropic interests include space exploration and scientific research through his organization Exoplanet Labs. Camp's legacy encompasses not only the creation of a transformative transportation platform but also the broader influence of sharing economy models on modern commerce and urban life. His work fundamentally altered expectations around convenience, technology integration, and service accessibility.