Travis Kalanick, born in Los Angeles in 1977, is well known as the founder and CEO of the ride-hailing app Uber.

Some of the official account articles claim that he can write code at the age of six, which is eighty percent false, because there is no credible information that Karanik himself boasted about it.

He said that he was bullied at school when he was a child because of his high level of mathematics, which was significantly higher than that of students in the same grade.

I didn't get beaten, probably because I was isolated and ridiculed as a nerd, a campus culture with American characteristics.

Perhaps because of this, there is a certain withdrawn, unsociable, and paranoid side to his personality.

Kalanick's math performance was due to his father's teachings, and the family used the most advanced computers of the time.

However, this does not mean that he came from a big family.

Kalanick's father was a civil engineer and his mother was a newspaper salesman, a middle-class family living in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

There is also evidence about his family background, Kalanick University studied at the famous UCLA, that is, the University of California, Los Angeles.

This university has a good reputation in China, because it recruits a large number of international students, and it is indeed very good among American public universities.

Focus, public universities.

In the United States, the truly top schools are all private.

Serious old Star-Spangled Banner - The old men of high society usually don't send their children to this kind of school.

Because they don't go to college to get a diploma and find a job, it's more important to make connections and potential alumni resources in the future.

In the eyes of the old man, it is a waste of life to mingle with a bunch of nerds and international students who "come to us from other places to ask for food" and don't know if they can stay in the United States after graduation.

Kalanick was still working hard at UCLA, preparing to pursue two degrees, computer science and business, but unfortunately he didn't get either.

Because he dropped out of school.

UCLA's location was unique, and Kalanick often hung out at the school's computer science club and found a bunch of like-minded buddies.

They came up with the idea of the world's first P2P file download resource search engine called Scour.

In all the stories about Kalanick, the project is seen as his first venture, and in fact he is not a marginal player in the team, but he is not a leading player either.

Because Kalanick himself was an intern at Intel when the program began, he joined as the seventh member of the team.

Kalanick was put on the SCOUR project, of course, because he became the most successful member of the startup team many years later.

Although Kalanick studied computer science and programmed, his role on the team was not that of a siege lion, but of financing.

This laid the foundation for his later career.

Kalanick is quite talented in financing, and Sour once got $4 million in financing when he was most hopeful, but eventually went bankrupt.

The reason for its failure is often scribbled as follows: a group of large Hollywood companies jointly sued for copyright infringement for a ridiculous $250 billion in claims, and finally settled but inevitably went bankrupt.

The implication of these words is that a group of young people with ideals have been bullied by the Haolaiwu giants.

However, the actual situation is that Souter started making music, but it was copied by another website of the same type, so it transformed into a video, stepped on the thunder of Hollywood, and blew up.

It may be contrary to the truth that "successful people are always right", and the media often selectively process the facts, as if they are afraid that they will damage the "wisdom and martial arts" of successful people.

The business failed, and he didn't even get a UCLA degree, and Kalanick fell into a low point in his life.

After that, the dropout started a second entrepreneurial project, but it was wasted for many years, and the company was left alone when it was the most depressed.

However, Kalanick's talent for finding money was not wasted, and he sold the project for $18.7 million in 2007, leaving him pocket for about $3 million, which is a decadent trend that has swept away many years.

And then he came to work.

By 2009, by this time, he had gotten rid of the difficulties in his previous life, and while working as an idle job for a salary at a large company that had acquired him, he was engaged in a side hustle in the open.

He was a well-known angel investor on Twitter at the time, specifically by looking at the edge of his eyes and shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for some projects.

In addition, he often gives "guidance" to those unsuccessful low-level entrepreneurs, which is a bit of a copycat version of the godfather.

There is also a small story about the origin of Uber.

In 2008, when Kalanick and his friends were attending an industry conference in Paris, they encountered difficulties in taking a taxi, so they came up with the idea of making a ride-hailing app, and Uber was born.

It's a pity it's fake.

The truth is that the Uber business model was conceived by a friend of Kalanick's, who registered Uber's first domain name months before the conference.

The friend shared the idea, and then invited friends in the startup circle, including Kalanick, to brainstorm a company.

But at this time, the company's shareholders are all part-time part-time participants, which can be regarded as a bureau of crowdfunding.

It wasn't until Uber got its first funding that Kalanick decided to leave his other job and join full-time as Uber's CEO because he felt that the project was promising.

To that end, his friend, Uber's real father, duly ceded some of his shares, allowing him to become the largest shareholder.

Since then, Kalanick has appeared as the soul of Uber, but Uber's plan was not actually thought up by him, so how can it work!

So there is the story mentioned earlier, which can be said to be very routine, and it is the standard configuration of almost every successful company in Silicon Valley.

No matter how corny it sounds, at least the story is there that makes it logical for Kalanick to appear at the very beginning of the Uber saga.

After that, his life was like a rocket, and he didn't know how many boosters he had tied, and as Uber was popular in the capital market, his net worth was also soaring.

As things stand, there is no sign of a stoppage in this momentum.

Lin Yi knew that now should be the "sweet period" in Karanik's life, and he had not yet reached his most brilliant peak.

After Kalanick became popular, the media habitual habit of being an afterthought began to discover a certain "inevitability of success" in him.

They came up with the title of "The Unluckiest Entrepreneur of All Time", with a vague explanation for their early failures as bad luck.

Jianni Liu reminded Lin Yi not long ago that entrepreneurs also need their own personality, and this Kalanick's character is like this:

rebellious, flamboyant, uninhibited, but persevering; Enjoyment, profligacy, emptiness, and then a melancholy older literary youth.

Summary: Schizophrenia.

The above bullshit may be just the self-play of the stupid media, not the rumors spread by Kalanick himself.

But he may not be unhappy to see his reputation grow louder and louder in the midst of false rumors, so that it is gradually mythologized by unknown people.

The so-called celebrity is a body wrapped in layers of disguise, which is either a variety of conjectures that add oil and vinegar, or a carefully woven lie.

Don't take their stories too seriously.

However, Lin Yi knew that what Liu Jianni wanted was to put such an identity on him.