WASHINGTON: Unlike many American startups, Uber was not founded in someone’s garage, but was conceived instead on a cold night in Paris, when two tech entrepreneurs could not find a taxi.
Uber chief Travis Kalanick and co-founder Garrett Camp were attending the technology conference Le Web in late 2008, where they were brainstorming ideas for a new venture — in Kalanick’s terms, “jamming” like jazz musicians.
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