Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

TechCrunch | 20.08.2026 04:48
Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what was then an unprecedented roughly $15 billion in venture funding during his tenure. Then, a boardroom battle with key investor Bill Gurley of venture firm Benchmark led to him being pushed out in 2017.
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