Garrett Camp is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and product designer. He has helped build a series of companies, including founding StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool, co-founding Uber, and founding Expa, a startup studio. Camp is chairman of Mix, the successor to StumbleUpon, and is on the board of directors of Uber.
At various private valuations, Garret’s net worth topped as much as $6 billion. On the day Uber went public in May 2019, his paper net worth ended trading at $3.4 billion. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1978, Garrett Camp studied at the University of Calgary, earning his electric engineering degree and later a master’s in software engineering. He founded popular website StumbleUpon in 2002. Within four years, he received funding from Silicon Valley investors and moved the company’s headquarters to San Francisco, California. Camp sold StumbleUpon to eBay for $75 million in 2007, though it regained its independency two years later.
He worked as StumbleUpon’s CEO until 2012, when he left to pursue other opportunities, leaving behind a business that was rated as one of “TIME” Magazine’s 50 must-have apps for the iPad. In 2009, he began working with Travis Kalanick on Uber, a cab service that began in San Francisco. It’s now one of the best-known transportation companies in the United States, and was considered among the most innovative companies of 2013. Camp also founded Expa, a startup studio that helps launch new products, in 2013. The company’s investors include a Google board member, the founder of Virgin, HP’s CEO, and the founder of WordPress.
