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How much do you really know about Garrett Camp? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Garrett Camp is a Canadian billionaire who co-founded the venture capital firm Expa.

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Easy
✓ TRUE

Camp, the co-founder of Uber, is a Canadian billionaire. He founded Expa in 2013, a startup studio and venture capital firm.

2.

Camp's net worth is primarily from StumbleUpon, not Uber, due to selling his shares early.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

Camp's billions come mostly from his Uber stake; StumbleUpon added wealth, but Uber's IPO made him a billionaire.

3.

Garrett Camp's first startup was a web analytics tool called StumbleUpon, which he sold to eBay for $75 million.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

StumbleUpon was a content discovery platform, not a web analytics tool. The sale to eBay for $75 million in 2007 is correct, but the mischaracterization makes the statement false.

4.

Camp originally conceived Uber while brainstorming with friends in Paris after a snowstorm made taxis scarce.

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The idea for Uber struck Camp during a snowy Paris evening in 2008 when he couldn't find a cab, inspiring the on-demand ride model.

5.

Garrett Camp co-founded both StumbleUpon and Uber in the same year, 2009.

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✗ FALSE

Camp co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001, not 2009. Uber was founded in 2009, but the two launches were eight years apart.

6.

Garrett Camp once worked as a software engineer at a top hedge fund before becoming an entrepreneur.

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Before startups, Camp worked as a software engineer at a hedge fund in New York, which helped fund his early entrepreneurial experiments.

7.

Garrett Camp holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Calgary.

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✗ FALSE

Camp earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering, not computer science, from the University of Calgary before his master's at the University of Cambridge.

8.

Camp designed Uber's original logo himself, sketching a simple 'U' on a napkin.

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The first Uber logo was a hand-drawn 'U' by Camp on a napkin, later refined, reflecting his hands-on design approach early on.

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