Company context
The public record describes Uber as peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its recorded founding year is 2009.
- Public business description
- peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Country in source record
- United States
- Founding year in source record
- 2009
Recorded founders
- Garrett Camp · Canadian entrepreneur
- Travis Kalanick · American entrepreneur
The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.
Understanding Uber in context
Uber is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California,” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 2009. The source links 2 people in this library to the founding team. Each has a separate profile, which makes it possible to follow the people behind the business without treating one founder as its sole owner.
The company website listed in the source is the next place to research its current offering. Compare the company’s own description, its leadership information, and dated announcements with this reference record before drawing conclusions about today’s business. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.
Research context: Food and hospitality businesses
A food or hospitality name can refer to an individual location, a chain, a product brand, or a company licensing its concept. Research the operating model before comparing it with another business. Founding information alone does not show the number of active locations, franchise relationships, or present operating ownership.
Questions for researching Uber
- Does the current company website distinguish owned locations from franchised or licensed locations?
- What sources identify the original concept and the people credited with establishing it?
- Are expansion and location claims tied to a date and an identifiable source?
This sector context is a reading guide based on the company’s recorded description. It does not attribute a particular business model or capability to Uber without supporting evidence.
This reference library documents public founding associations. It is separate from our revenue-qualified growth profiles. Founding does not establish current ownership, employment, company revenue, or an AE client relationship.
Research trail
- Wikidata public record Q780442: company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
- Uber website as listed in the public record
Following up with the business
For current products, services, management, and availability, consult the business directly. Revenue and current ownership have not been independently verified for this reference record. Authorized representatives can submit a correction with a current company biography, filing, or other public evidence.