Super Pumped

When you desire something so intensely from a very young age, images are formed in the mind that eventually guide the actions that will result in making them happen.

Born on 6^th August 1976, Kalanick is the son of an engineer and a seller of advertising space in the Los Angeles Daily News. A lonely child, he didn’t have any friends or a girlfriend, and he kept company with just one constant thought: to build a successful company of his own.

A tireless worker, Kalanick slogged constantly, trying to create something that would last. This is when he founded Scour, a small company with no real business model. The intention was to create a program that could download files quickly. The concept was similar to Napster, which was created for downloading music. However, there was a problem: downloading was considered piracy, so it was illegal.

After Scour, there was Red Swoosh, another company that had developed a system to transfer files between two computers. When he sold Red Swoosh, Kalanick’s dream came true, and he became rich. The company sold for $20 million, a remarkable result that spurred Kalanick on to keep going, thus feeding his need to feel powerful.