The Story Behind Uber

Added: 2026-06-03

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[00:00:13]>> Do you know how Uber was born? In 2008, [music] Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp were at a tech conference in Paris struggling to get a [music] taxi.

[00:00:20]Standing on a cold street in Paris, they had one simple thought. What if you could press a button on your phone and a car [music] would appear? Reaching back in San Francisco, they started building the idea under the name Uber. [music] Uber launched in San Francisco in 2010 with a small fleet of black cars. Then in 2012 came UberX with cheaper cars and everyday [music] drivers where anyone with a vehicle could sign up. With lower prices, their demand exploded to different parts of the world. Today, Uber [music] operates in 70 countries, completes over 30 million trips every single [music] day, and is worth over $150 billion.

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