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Uber Technologies Inc. was founded as UberCabs in March 2009 and is now more commonly known simply as Uber. Of the three original co-founders, only Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick remain, with Oscar Salazar having amicably left in 2011, soon after Uber’s services and mobile app officially launched in San Francisco. Following an initial seed investment of $200,000, Uber has gone on to raise more than $6-billion, while revenue in 2015 topped $1.5-billion. And although it was recently reported that losses for 2016 could exceed $2-billion, Uber’s losses are growing slower than they used to, possibly the result of Uber exiting China.

But how did Travis Kalanick – the man most often associated with Uber – end up disrupting the taxi industry?