Travis Cordell Kalanick

Biography

Kalanick was born on August 6, 1976, in Los Angeles. He grew up in Northridge, California, where he graduated from Granada Hills High School and later enrolled in college at University of California, Los Angeles, to study computer engineering. While studying at UCLA, Kalanick started his first business, an online file-exchange service called Scour. In 1998, he dropped out of UCLA to work at the start-up full time. n 1998, Kalanick, along with Michael Todd and Vince Busam, dropped out of UCLA to help Dan Rodrigues found Scour Inc., a multimediasearch engine, and Scour Exchange, a peer-to-peer file sharing service. In 2000, the Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) brought a $250 billion[22] lawsuit against Scour, alleging copyright infringement. In September of 2000, Scour filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from the lawsuit.

Research Interest

 Environmental Sciences