business Overview
HQplaceSan Francisco Bay Area
BusinessRidesharing and food delivery
Founded
access_time 14 years ago
(founded March 2009)
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
Employees
33,000
TrueUp
Rank
#46
Valuation
$77 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#40
all-time high: $130 B (-41%)
1 year ago: $47 B (+63%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($UBER)
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Uber is a Ridesharing and food delivery company. It is currently valued at $77 billion as a public company. 33,000 people work at Uber. The company was founded in 2009.

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Valuation
$77 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#40
52 wk high: $82 B (-6%)
1 year ago: $47 B (+63%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$29 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#33
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
72.2%
TrueUp
Rank
#53
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue2.6x
Valuation per employee$2.3 million
Revenue per employee$0.9 million
phonelink Products
Top products
- Uber
- Uber Eats
- Postmates (acq in 2020 for $2.65B)
- Drizly (acq in 2021 for $1.1B)
Primary customer type
emoji_people B2C
Is this really a tech company?
Definitely
remove Network effects
close Zero marginal costs to produce
check Product improves over time
check Zero cost to expand globally
check Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales
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Glassdoor employee reviews
76%
would recommend Uber to a friend (24,136 reviews)
worse than 50% of tech co's
80%
approve of the CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (3,987 reviews)
worse than 62% of tech co's
Cultural Norms
- We build globally; we live locally
- We are customer obsessed
- We celebrate differences
- We do the right thing
- We act like owners
- We persevere
- We value ideas over hierarchy
- We make big bold bets
Company culture links
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_satisfied Good
TrueUp
Rank
#64
Top open source projects
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rule Policies
% of open jobs that are remoteN/A
home_work Remote work policy
Fully remote work is sometimes an option
public H1B sponsorships approved in 2022
183
TrueUp
Rank
#15
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history Other info
Associated billionaires
(source:Forbes)
$2.5B - Garrett Camp
$4.0B - Travis Kalanick
IPO dateMay 10, 2019
(4 years ago)
Top owners at IPO
16.3% - SoftBank
11.0% - Benchmark Capital Partners
8.6% - Travis Kalanick
6.0% - Garrett Camp
6.0% - Expa
5.3% - The Public Investment Fund
5.2% - Alphabet Inc
2.4% - Ryan Graves
Founder ownership at IPO14.6%
Implied founder equity split
59% - Travis Kalanick
41% - Garrett Camp
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