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Back in 2011, Bezos invested $37 million in Uber's Series B funding round. The popular ride-hailing app went public in 2019 at $45 per share, valuing the company at $82.4 billion. At a current share price of $46.72 as of Oct. 12, 2021, Uber now sports a market cap of over $88 billion.
(She refused a 6 million dollar fee, opting instead for stock in Uber.) Watching the decadence and drama unfold, it is not hard to guess why founder and CEO Travis Kalanick was, a few years later, ousted from Uber in a boardroom coup.
Kutcher's acting career made him millions, but his lucrative investments made him even more. The actor made millions as an early investor in successful startups such as Skype, Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, Warby Parker, Pinterest, and Shazam among others.
In 2020, he bought a $43.3 million Los Angeles mansion. According to Page Six, Kalanick began dating Victoria's Secret model Daniela Lopez Osorio in early 2021, but the pair has since split. According to Forbes, Kalanick's net worth is around $2.7 billion dollars today.
It's been a long road to real profits.It's taken 14 years and nearly $32 billion of cumulative losses, but ride-sharing and food delivery company Uber (UBER -0.33%) is finally a profitable company. Uber reported a net income of $394 million in the second quarter.
Google invested $258 million in Uber in 2013 and integrated Uber into Google Maps the following year. The relationship began to sour in 2015 when Uber acquired a team of robotics talent from Carnegie Mellon University, Kalanick said.
That could mean big bucks for the investors who got in early after the app was founded in 2009, including some familiar faces: Ashton Kutcher, Beyoncé and JAY-Z, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jared Leto, Olivia Munn, Edward Norton and Lance Armstrong have all been linked to the company as shareholders in a new ...
According to Forbes, Jay-Z had cash and other investments worth USD 220 million, including his USD 70-million stake in Uber, as of 2019. Besides earnings from his music, the main source of Jay-Z's billion-dollar fortune is his many businesses.
The hip-hop legend understood not only the company's potential, but how outrageously lucrative an initial investment could be. Unfortunately for him, Kalanick returned the excess funds. But Jay-Z still hung onto his $2 million investment.
In December, at the 2011 LeWeb conference, Kalanick announced that Uber had raised $37 million in Series B financing from Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and Goldman Sachs.
At the time, Uber was not just one of the world's fastest-growing companies - it was one of the most controversial, dogged by court cases, allegations of sexual harassment, and data breach scandals. Eventually shareholders had enough, and Travis Kalanick was forced out in 2017.
Editor's Choice. The trust didn't own much of ride-hailing giant Uber, just 26,767 shares, but sold them all in the fourth quarter. Uber stock had a strong 2020, surging 71.5%.