Garrett Camp
Garrett Camp
Garrett Campis a Canadian entrepreneur. He co-founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery platform that grew to over 25 million registered users, while in graduate school at the University of Calgary in 2002 and co-founded Uber, an on-demand car service available via a mobile application in 2009. Garrett serves as Chairman for both StumbleUpon and Uber. Uber operates in 58 countries and in over 400 cities around the world, and by 2016 was valued at $62 billion...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth4 October 1978
CountryCanada
You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.