Who Is Garrett Camp?

Garett Camp is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, product designer, and investor who has helped build a series of companies including Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon.

Garrett Camp is a Canadian Billionaire and co-founder of StumbleUpon and UberImage Source: The New York Times
Garrett Camp is a Canadian Billionaire and co-founder of StumbleUpon and Uber

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The 41-year-old Camp is the chairman of Mix, the successor to StumbleUpon, and is one of the board members of Uber. He along with Travis Kalanick founded the company in 2009.

What Is his Net Worth? Highlight About His Assets

According to Forbes, Camp is estimated at around $2.9 billion as of 27th February 2020, whereas, Celebrity Net Worth estimated his worth at around $3.4 billion as of early 2020.

Most of his fortune comes from his versatile companies and businesses.

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The Uber co-founder Camp purchased a 12,119 square-foot residence with 7 bedrooms and a guest house for $71 million back in 2019.

Camp purchased a $71 million Bel Air mansion in 2019Image Source: Business Insider
Camp purchased a $71 million Bel Air mansion in 2019

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He also owns a 10,007 square feet 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms with a 3,726 square feet living space in Bel Air. He bought the house for $15.7 million in 2019.

Let Us Go Through His Career

The Canadian entrepreneur co-founded StumbleUpon in 2002 which was a first web-discovery platform. The company relocated to San Francisco in 2006 after receiving its first round of funding from Silicon Valley angel investors.

StumbleUpon was listed on the Time magazine “5- Best Websites” list and “50 Must-Have iPad Apps” in 2013. in 2007, the company was acquired by eBay for $75 million.

He also founded a transportation network company known as UberCab back in early 2009 and self-funded $250k while he was CEO of StumbleUpon.

Camp during a conference MeetingImage Source: Forbes
Garett Camp during a conference MeetingImage Source: Forbes

The company was launched in San Francisco in mid-2010 with just a few cars on the road and raised $1.25 million in angel funding.

It was listed in Forbes Top 10 Companies of 2012 and was ranked #6 in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2013. The camp serves on Uber’s Board of Directors currently.

He is currently working on a cryptocurrency called Eco. He is striving to make a digital global currency that facilitates daily transactions between businesses to improve commonly occurring issues with digital currencies.

A Short Biography: Who Is He Married to?

Garrett Camp was born on 4th October 1978 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He holds Canadian nationality and has White-Caucasian ethnic descent.

He went to local high school and graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2001. Hee earned his master’s degree in software engineering, researching collaborative systems, information retrieval, evolutionary algorithms.

Here is a picture of Garrett's wife Eliza NguyenImage Source: Medium
Here is a picture of Garrett’s wife Eliza Nguyen

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Garett Camp is currently married to his longterm partner named Eliza Nguyen. However, the duo prefers a lowkey life and has not revealed any details regarding their love life and marriage.

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