Garrett Camp Biography
(Innovator & Entrepreneurs)
Birthday: October 4, 1978 (Libra)
Born In: Calgary
Garrett Camp is a Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery platform, and Uber, an on-demand car service available via a mobile application. A true innovator at heart, he plans to help found more companies in future and has created Expa as a new platform for future companies. Born to enterprising parents who quit their respective jobs to embark on a new career as design/build team, Camp believes in taking calculated risks in order to grow as a businessman. From having attended a small school as a young boy, he moved on to the University of Calgary for a degree in electrical engineering. While at the university, he decided to start a company and teamed up with three like-minded friends. The friends came up with several business ideas and ultimately decided to go with the concept of a discovery engine that would find web content for its users. Thus StumbleUpon was born. The company took off and its early success helped the founders in raising adequate funding from angel investors. While serving as the CEO of StumbleUpon, Camp came up with the idea for Uber which he co-founded in 2009. More recently he formed Expa and is considered to be one of the best technology innovators in recent times