Eleven years before Travis Kalanick co-founded Uber, he started a company called Scour that did peer-to-peer file sharing. It was just before the dot-com bubble. As with most P2P services, the company was subjected to a 250 billion dollars lawsuit, forcing it to file for bankruptcy. Though Kalanick in his own words managed to use the remnants to start another P2P sharing company called Red Swoosh, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007.
#18 The beauty of BitTorrent
#18 The beauty of BitTorrent
#18 The beauty of BitTorrent
Eleven years before Travis Kalanick co-founded Uber, he started a company called Scour that did peer-to-peer file sharing. It was just before the dot-com bubble. As with most P2P services, the company was subjected to a 250 billion dollars lawsuit, forcing it to file for bankruptcy. Though Kalanick in his own words managed to use the remnants to start another P2P sharing company called Red Swoosh, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007.