Brand · United States
Uber
Uber reinvented urban mobility by connecting passengers with drivers through an app.
Founding of Uber, year 2009
Themes: mobility, disruption, access, efficiency.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding of Uber
- What happened
- Garrett Camp, frustrated by how hard it was to find a taxi in Paris, came up in 2009 with an app-bookable chauffeured car service from San Francisco.
- Year
- 2009
- Source
- Historical documentation
- Note
- Founded in March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick in San Francisco.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.