Canadian billionaire entrepreneur (born 1978)
Garrett Camp
Camp in 2018
Born (1978-10-04 ) October 4, 1978 (age 45) Alma mater
University of Calgary (BSc & MSc) Occupation(s) Businessman, investor, software engineer Title Founder of Expa Co-founder & Board member of
Uber Founder & Chairman of
StumbleUpon Website
garrettcamp .com
Garrett Camp (born October 4, 1978) is a Canadian businessman, investor, and software engineer.
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[2] He helped build the search engine
StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of
Uber .
[3] He lives in
Los Angeles .
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Early life and education
Camp was born and raised in
Calgary, Alberta , Canada.
[5] His father was an economist, and his mother an artist; both later became home builders.
[4] In 2001 he graduated from the
University of Calgary with a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering . Later he earned a master's degree in software engineering with a focus on
collaborative systems ,
evolutionary algorithms , and
information retrieval .
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Career
Camp at the 2008
The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam
In 2002, Camp co-founded
StumbleUpon . It was the first personalized
search engine platform.
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[11] In 2007, StumbleUpon was acquired by
eBay
[12] and in 2009 StumbleUpon was spun-out.
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[18] Following its spin-off, Camp worked to expand its services
[16] and grow the company.
[19] In 2012, Camp left StumbleUpon.
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In 2014, Camp founded Expa Labs with the goal of growing new companies.
[21] In 2015, Camp reacquired StumbleUpon.
[22] It operated until 2018, when it transitioned to Mix, a venture built in part through Expa Labs.
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Uber
In 2009, Camp founded
Uber as UberCab
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[27] In 2011, the company continued to expand across the United States and abroad.
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[29] In 2020, Camp left Uber's board of directors but remained a board observer.
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In 2022, Camp was portrayed by actor
Jon Bass in
Super Pumped , a drama series based on Uber.
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Investments
In the past, Camp has invested in
Prism Skylabs ;
[32] and BlackJet, an on-demand private aviation service.
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Awards and honors
In 2007, Camp was named to the List of Top Innovators under the age of 35 at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.
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[35] In 2008, Camp was named by
Bloomberg Businessweek as one of Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs.
[36] In 2013, Camp was honored at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for his accomplishments at both StumbleUpon and Uber.
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Wealth
In 2015, 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 .
[38] As of November 2022, Camp's net worth is calculated at US$2.7 billion according to
Forbes .
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In 2017, Camp joined
The Giving Pledge , a commitment to give away half of his wealth to charity.
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In June 2019, after Camp purchased a mansion in
Trousdale Estates of
Beverly Hills for $72.5 million,
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[42] Uber drivers struggling for higher pay and better working conditions picketed his home.
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References
^ McCullough, Michael (21 September 2011).
"Stumbling upon success" .
Canadian Business . Archived from
the original on 2012-12-31. Retrieved 19 April 2019 .
^ Camp, Garrett (2011-10-22).
"The Start-Up Advantage" . The New York Times .
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b
"Interview with Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon Co-Founder" . CenterNetworks . Archived from
the original on 2012-05-20.
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a
b
"Bloomberg profile: Garrett Camp" . Bloomberg LP . Retrieved 9 May 2019 .
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b Plana, Vincent (11 January 2018).
"17 Facts You Didn't Know About Uber Co-Founder's $68 Billion Fortune" . www.narcity.com . Retrieved 2019-04-30 .
^ Helft, Miguel (2007-10-07).
"A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky" . The New York Times .
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"Garrett Camp: "one-size-fits-all in search is history" " . The Next Web . 4 April 2008.
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"SoMa-Based StumbleUpon Provides a "Forward Button" for Discovery on the Internet" . 7x7SF . August 2011.
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"Q&A With Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Architect, StumbleUpon" . Search Engine Land . 4 April 2007.
^
"The Serendipity Of StumbleUpon - an interview with Garrett Camp, Chief Architect" . ReadWriteWeb . 17 October 2006.
^ Waters, Darren (29 March 2007).
"Web 2.0 wonders: StumbleUpon" .
BBC News . Retrieved 23 April 2019 .
^ Fost, Dan (2007-06-24).
"Company Stumbles its Way to 75 Million" . The San Francisco Chronicle .
^
"StumbleUpon Beats Skype In Escaping EBay's Clutches" . TechCrunch . 13 April 2009.
^
"StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp Speaks (About Being a Born-Again Start-up)!" . AllThingsD .
^ Joyner, April (July 2011).
"Garrett Camp: Buying Back the Company" . Inc .
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a
b Mangalindan, JP (29 February 2012).
"How StumbleUpon saved itself" .
Fortune . Retrieved 12 April 2019 .
^ Borzo, Jeanette (November 15, 2010).
"Interview with Garrett Camp: The Perils of Being the Little Fish" .
The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Tsotsis, Alexia (March 17, 2011).
"StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp On What It's Like To Buy Back Your Company" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Ha, Anthony (April 26, 2012).
"StumbleUpon Reaches 25M Registered Users, Plans For Global Expansion And API" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Ha, Anthony (May 8, 2012).
"Mufassil Steps Down As StumbleUpon CEO, Will Serve As Chairman" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Yeung, Ken (30 March 2016).
"Expa raises $100 million to build more companies, launches startup accelerator" .
VentureBeat . Retrieved 15 April 2019 .
^ Olanoff, Drew (August 26, 2015).
"Co-Founder Garrett Camp Buys Back Majority Share In StumbleUpon" .
TechCrunch . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Camp, Garrett (May 23, 2018).
"SU is moving to Mix" .
Medium . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
^ Carson, Biz (August 1, 2018).
"Uber Cofounder Garrett Camp Is Back To An Old Problem: Finding Interesting Things On The Internet" .
Forbes . Retrieved 2019-05-05 .
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"A Peek Under the Hood at Uber" . 7x7SF . 12 July 2011.
^ Prive, Tanya.
"Uber: Top 10 Tech Companies Of 2012" . Forbes .
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"UberCab Closes Uber Angel Round" . TechCrunch . 15 October 2010.
^ Jeffries, Adrianne (26 April 2013).
"After long battle, Uber becomes first taxi app to get approved in New York City" .
The Verge . Retrieved 16 April 2019 .
^ Schechner, Sam (13 November 2014).
"Uber Launches Car Pooling Service in Paris" .
The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 16 April 2019 .
^ Lomas, Natasha (2020-03-31).
"Uber co-founder Garrett Camp steps back from board director role" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2022-11-13 .
^ Petski, Denise (2021-09-01).
" 'Super Pumped': Jon Bass Joins Showtime Series About Uber From 'Billions' Co-Creators" . Deadline . Retrieved 2022-11-13 .
^ FinSMEs (2011-09-14).
"Prism Skylabs Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding" . FinSMEs . Retrieved 2022-11-13 .
^ Primack, Dan (2016-05-05).
"Celeb-backed BlackJet Is Grounded. Again" . Fortune .
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"Innovators Under 35" . MIT Technology Review .
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"Garrett Camp Named to Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 List of Top Young Innovators" . PR Newswire .
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"Garrett Camp: Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" . Bloomberg Businessweek . Archived from
the original on April 21, 2008.
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"Garrett Camp: 2013 Honoree" . Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards .
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Forbes' 29th Annual World's Billionaires Issue , Forbes , March 2, 2015
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"Garrett Camp" . Forbes . Retrieved 2022-11-12 .
^ Kolodny, Lora (2017-11-22).
"Uber and Infosys co-founders are latest billionaires to join The Giving Pledge" . CNBC . Retrieved 2017-12-16 .
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"Uber co-founder Garrett Camp quietly shells out $71 million for Beverly Hills mansion" . Los Angeles Times . 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2019-07-27 .
^ Dobson, Amy Rose (2019-07-03).
"Uber Cofounder Garrett Camp Breaks Property Records In Beverly Hills For $72 Million" .
Forbes .
^ Levin, Sam (2 Jul 2019)
"Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages." The Guardian. (Retrieved September 3, 2019.)
^ Swartz, Angela (2019-11-06).
"Atherton: Uber drivers, other contract workers protest outside of Uber investor's home" .
The Almanac .
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