Uber is Five Years Old

Travis Kalanick, Co-founder and CEO of Uber, in Five Years and 311 Cities Later:

In 2008, on a snowy night in Paris, Garrett Camp and I had trouble getting a cab. Garrett had this idea, “Why can’t we just tap a button and get a ride?”

Five years ago today, we launched Uber in San Francisco. Now more than 1 million drivers have provided hundreds of millions of rides and that simple question has transformed into a global transportation network available in 311 cities and 58 countries around the world.

Today, Uber was launched 5 years ago in San Francisco. Half a decade later, it’s practically impossible to envision a world without convenient transportation at a push of a button. It was made possible by the proliferation of mobile, and has risen to become one of the most controversial and disruptive companies of our generation. But love it or hate it, their growth and impact is nothing short of astounding, and they’re only getting started.