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Staffing 100 North America

The Staffing 100 North America list celebrates the remarkable leaders whose influence and accomplishments elevate the workforce solutions ecosystem and take the industry forward.  

2016 Staffing 100 North America

Travis Kalanick

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Travis Kalanick is co-founder and CEO of Uber Technologies Inc. Under his leadership, Uber has grown from an exclusive San Francisco-based ride sharing service to an application used by millions of riders and hundreds of thousands of drivers in more than 360 cities in 65 countries on six continents. Uber’s technology-driven, on-demand staffing model has revolutionized the utilization of a flexible workforce strategy and changed the way people travel. In 2015, the company revealed that it was providing 1 million rides per day and adding 50,000 new drivers each month. Kalanick also made Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.