Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Just Paid $43 Million For This Bel-Air Estate (It Had Been Seeking $75 Million)
ByBrian Warneron May 9, 2020inArticles›Celebrity Homes
The Wall Street Journal has revealed the true identity behind an LLC that just paid $43 million for a home in Bel-Air. As you may have inferred from the title of this article, billionaire Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is LA’s newest Fresh Prince.
Known as “Bellagio,” because it is on Bellagio Rd, the 2-acre property has a 20,000 square-foot main house. The house has seven bedrooms, a massive wine cellar, two swimming pools and a tennis court.
The seller was a real estate investor named Christopher Cole who bought the home in 2015 for $38 million. Cole listed the home for sale in October 2019 for a mouth-watering $75 million.
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Travis also owns a 7,000-square-foot penthouse apartment in New York City which he scooped up in 2018 for $36.5 million. The apartment was still under construction at the time of purchase and will ultimately feature a private roof deck pool.
Travis is sitting on a cash (as opposed to paper stock-based) net worth of $4 billion. While he was running Uber, he sold of chunks of shares over various funding rounds for billions in proceeds. He was ousted as CEO in June 2017 in a blaze of controversy.
Uber went public in May 2019, at which point Travis was still the company’s largest private investor.
In December 2019, almost exactly six months after the IPO when his lock-up forbid him to sell, Travis announced he was moving on completely from Uber and had sold off 90% of his shares. It was good timing. By April of the next year, with the Corona crisis in full-swing, those Uber shares lost 50% of their value.
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Travis Kalanick Sells $547 Million Of Uber Stock To Fund His Next Venture
ByAmy Lamareon November 19, 2019inArticles›Billionaire News
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s been just about two years since Travis Kalanick was forced out of the company he helped co-found: Uber. Now he’s sold an enormous chunk of Uber stock just as the ride-sharing company’s post-IPO lockup period ended. Kalanick sold 20.3 million shares for about $547 million on Friday, November 8, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The lockup period is a 180-day restriction designed to reduce the volatility of shares in newly public companies.
Last week, Uber saw heavy selling that sent its share price spiraling downward for a 9% loss. The company is currently less valuable than it was in 2015 and some private investors are underwater on their investments. Share prices are down 36% since the IPO.
With the sale, Kalanick now has a 4.6% stake in Uber. That’s worth about $2.5 billion. He’s also still a member of the board of directors.
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Back in 2017, the proverbial ‘Ishtar hit the fan for Kalanick and Uber. First, he was lambasted by the public for joining Donald Trump’s team of advisers. He dropped out of that committee a few weeks later. Then, a video surfaced of Kalanick viciously berating an Uber driver while he was a passenger in the car. The driver was frustrated over how the company pays its drivers. Kalanick unleashed on his driver saying, among other things:
“Some people don’t want to take responsibility for their ‘sh-t.’”
At the time, Kalanick’s outburst seemed to be the lowest point he and the company he ran could sink to. And then, a former Uber engineer named Susan Fowler published an impassioned blog post in which she accused the company over overt sexism. She was propositioned by her boss time and time again. She took it to H.R. and they told her that her boss was too important to discipline. #DeleteUber became a trending topic on social media. Uber hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the growing number of allegations of sexual harassment.
After numerous scandals, the board of directors had enough and asked for his resignation. This marked the end of this chapter of Kalanick’s high-flying career. But now, with the infusion of $547 million into his bank accounts, it’s left people wondering just what Kalanick is up to next.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported an investment by Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund into CloudKitchens. Guess who runs that company? Travis Kalanick. It is a delivery-only restaurant startup. This is a relatively new space for apps – these so-called kitchens are known as virtual restaurants or dark kitchens. Dark kitchens/virtual restaurants are kitchen-only concepts that process and produce orders for delivery. There are no tables, chairs, servers, hosts, or storefront. The food can only be ordered online or through a mobile app and is delivered to the customer.
What’s fascinating is that with this new venture, Kalanick is competing directly with his former company. UberEats has been scaling its business rapidly and getting into the dark kitchen space.
For a long time, Uber was the most valuable startup in the world. It has lost that title to ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.
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