| Real Name | Garrett Camp |
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| Net Worth 2026 | $6.65 billion USD |
| Birthday (Year-Month-Day) | 1978-10-4 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Height | m or 0 ft 0 inches |
| Weight | kg or 0 pounds |
| Marital Status | |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Education | University of Calgary |
| Kids | |
| Kids Names |
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Camp in 2018 | |
| Born | October 4, 1978 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Citizenship | France,[1] Canada |
| Education | University of Calgary (BSc, MSc) |
| Occupations |
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| Title | Founder of Expa Co-founder & Board member of Uber Founder & Chairman of StumbleUpon |
| Website | garrettcamp |
Garrett Camp (born October 4, 1978) is a Canadian-French businessman, investor, and software engineer.[2][3] He helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber.[4] He lives in Los Angeles.[5]
Early life and education
Camp was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[1] His father was an economist, and his mother an artist; both later became home builders.[5] In 2001 he graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Later he earned a master's degree in software engineering with a focus on collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms, and information retrieval.[1]
Career

In 2002, Camp co-founded StumbleUpon. It was the first personalized search engine platform.[4][6][7][8][9][10][11] In 2007, StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay[12] and in 2009 StumbleUpon was spun-out.[13][14][15][16][17][18] Following its spin-off, Camp worked to expand its services[16] and grow the company.[19] In 2012, Camp left StumbleUpon.[20]
In 2014, Camp founded Expa Labs with the goal of growing new companies.[21] In 2015, Camp reacquired StumbleUpon.[22] It operated until 2018, when it transitioned to Mix, a venture built in part through Expa Labs.[23][24]
Uber
In 2009, Camp founded Uber as UberCab[25][26][27] In 2011, the company continued to expand across the United States and abroad.[28][29] In 2020, Camp left Uber's board of directors but remained a board observer.[30]
In 2022, Camp was portrayed by actor Jon Bass in Super Pumped, a drama series based on Uber.[31]
Investments
In the past, Camp has invested in Prism Skylabs;[32] and BlackJet, an on-demand private aviation service.[33]
Awards and honors
In 2007, Camp was named to the List of Top Innovators under the age of 35 at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.[34][35] In 2008, Camp was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs.[36] In 2013, Camp was honored at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for his accomplishments at both StumbleUpon and Uber.[37]
Personal life
In 2015, Camp was the 283rd-richest person in the world and the third-richest Canadian, with an estimated wealth of US$5.3 billion, according to Forbes.[38] As of February 2024, Camp's net worth is calculated at US$6.18 billion, making him the fifteenth-richest Canadian, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[39]
In 2017, Camp joined The Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away half of his wealth to charity.[40] Garrett Camp's Camp Foundation funds nonprofit projects such as Every.org, a nonprofit which provides technology to other nonprofits to accept donations in stock, crypto, DAFs, and cash.[41][42]
In June 2019, after Camp purchased a mansion in Trousdale Estates of Beverly Hills for $72.5 million,[43][44] Uber drivers struggling for higher pay and better working conditions picketed his home.[45][46]
References
- 1 2 3 Plana, Vincent (January 11, 2018). "17 Facts You Didn't Know About Uber Co-Founder's $68 Billion Fortune". www.narcity.com. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
- ↑ McCullough, Michael (September 21, 2011). "Stumbling upon success". Canadian Business. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ↑ Camp, Garrett (October 22, 2011). "The Start-Up Advantage". The New York Times.
- 1 2 "Interview with Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon Co-Founder". CenterNetworks. Archived from the original on May 20, 2012.
- 1 2 "Bloomberg profile: Garrett Camp". Bloomberg LP. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Helft, Miguel (October 7, 2007). "A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Garrett Camp: "one-size-fits-all in search is history"". The Next Web. April 4, 2008.
- ↑ "SoMa-Based StumbleUpon Provides a "Forward Button" for Discovery on the Internet". 7x7SF. August 2011.
- ↑ "Q&A With Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Architect, StumbleUpon". Search Engine Land. April 4, 2007.
- ↑ "The Serendipity Of StumbleUpon - an interview with Garrett Camp, Chief Architect". ReadWriteWeb. October 17, 2006. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013.
- ↑ Waters, Darren (March 29, 2007). "Web 2.0 wonders: StumbleUpon". BBC News. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ↑ Fost, Dan (June 24, 2007). "Company Stumbles its Way to 75 Million". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ "StumbleUpon Beats Skype In Escaping EBay's Clutches". TechCrunch. April 13, 2009.
- ↑ "StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp Speaks (About Being a Born-Again Start-up)!". AllThingsD.
- ↑ Joyner, April (July 2011). "Garrett Camp: Buying Back the Company". Inc.
- 1 2 Mangalindan, JP (February 29, 2012). "How StumbleUpon saved itself". Fortune. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Borzo, Jeanette (November 15, 2010). "Interview with Garrett Camp: The Perils of Being the Little Fish". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Tsotsis, Alexia (March 17, 2011). "StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp On What It's Like To Buy Back Your Company". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Ha, Anthony (April 26, 2012). "StumbleUpon Reaches 25M Registered Users, Plans For Global Expansion And API". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Ha, Anthony (May 8, 2012). "Mufassil Steps Down As StumbleUpon CEO, Will Serve As Chairman". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Yeung, Ken (March 30, 2016). "Expa raises $100 million to build more companies, launches startup accelerator". VentureBeat. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
- ↑ Olanoff, Drew (August 26, 2015). "Co-Founder Garrett Camp Buys Back Majority Share In StumbleUpon". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Camp, Garrett (May 23, 2018). "SU is moving to Mix". Medium. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Carson, Biz (August 1, 2018). "Uber Cofounder Garrett Camp Is Back To An Old Problem: Finding Interesting Things On The Internet". Forbes. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ "A Peek Under the Hood at Uber". 7x7SF. July 12, 2011.
- ↑ Prive, Tanya. "Uber: Top 10 Tech Companies Of 2012". Forbes.
- ↑ "UberCab Closes Uber Angel Round". TechCrunch. October 15, 2010.
- ↑ Jeffries, Adrianne (April 26, 2013). "After long battle, Uber becomes first taxi app to get approved in New York City". The Verge. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
- ↑ Schechner, Sam (November 13, 2014). "Uber Launches Car Pooling Service in Paris". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
- ↑ Lomas, Natasha (March 31, 2020). "Uber co-founder Garrett Camp steps back from board director role". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ↑ Petski, Denise (September 1, 2021). "'Super Pumped': Jon Bass Joins Showtime Series About Uber From 'Billions' Co-Creators". Deadline. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ↑ FinSMEs (September 14, 2011). "Prism Skylabs Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding". FinSMEs. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ↑ Primack, Dan (May 5, 2016). "Celeb-backed BlackJet Is Grounded. Again". Fortune.
- ↑ "Innovators Under 35". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Garrett Camp Named to Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 List of Top Young Innovators". PR Newswire (Press release).
- ↑ "Garrett Camp: Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008.
- ↑ "Garrett Camp: 2013 Honoree". Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.
- ↑ Forbes' 29th Annual World's Billionaires Issue, Forbes, March 2, 2015
- ↑ Bloomberg (February 18, 2024). "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Forbes. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- ↑ Kolodny, Lora (November 22, 2017). "Uber and Infosys co-founders are latest billionaires to join The Giving Pledge". CNBC. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ↑ Murray, Sarah. "Expediting Digital Giving (SSIR)". ssir.org. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Every.org". Forbes. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Uber co-founder Garrett Camp quietly shells out $71 million for Beverly Hills mansion". Los Angeles Times. June 28, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
- ↑ Dobson, Amy Rose (July 3, 2019). "Uber Cofounder Garrett Camp Breaks Property Records In Beverly Hills For $72 Million". Forbes.
- ↑ Levin, Sam (2 Jul 2019) "Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages." The Guardian. (Retrieved September 3, 2019.)
- ↑ Swartz, Angela (November 6, 2019). "Atherton: Uber drivers, other contract workers protest outside of Uber investor's home". The Almanac.
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