A Shopping App That Uses Human Eyes

摘要

Garrett Camp made a fortune helping people navigate the digital world, then a far larger fortune helping them navigate the physical one. The Canadian-born Camp co-founded StumoIeUpon, the early online links hub, in 2002, sold it to EBay for $75 million in 2007, and bought it back for 40 percent less in 2009. That same year, it occurred to him that many taxi drivers tooling around in search of their next fares had smartphones in their pockets and could be easily summoned by an app that made use of GPS data. The idea became Uber, and co-founder Camp is now worth an estimated $5.3 billion. As Uber's chairman, he doesn't have an operational role at the company, so he had enough time last year to found the tech industry incubator Expa, spread lavishly across the 27th floor of a downtown San Francisco office tower.