المملكة: Approval has been issued to grant Saudi citizenship to entrepreneur Travis Kalanick

Approval was issued to grant Saudi citizenship to entrepreneur Travis Kalanick, who is considered one of the most prominent entrepreneurs who have ventured into establishing startup companies.
Kalanick is a founding partner in Uber, and currently serves as CEO of Cloud Kitchens, and has succeeded in attracting investors to pump into the company an estimated $1.25 billion.

Travis Kalanick’s origins

Travis Kalanick was born on August 6, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, after completing basic school education. He moved on to the university stage, as he joined the University of California, and his first project in the computer field was called Scour, and it aimed to share files and download music.
In 1998, Kalanick decided to leave his university studies and devote his entire time to work.

The beginning of the idea of Uber

In 2008, Travis Kalanick was attending a conference in Paris, and after the conference ended, he struggled to find a taxi. During his return home, the idea of the Uber project came to him, and the idea was the possibility of getting a taxi through a mobile phone.
After one minute, Kalanick decided to write a tweet on Twitter carrying his idea, and to search for support for it, and indeed this tweet received an unusual reaction, so much so that it was called "Billion dollar tweet"Because it was a reason for the businessman to communicate "Ryan Graves" With him, and Greaves, an engineer and developer.
The first employee joined Uber and in 2010, the first 3 cars were launched under the name "Uber" In New York.

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