Startup Wednesday: Uber – how the world’s most valuable startup unicorn came to be
- 24. ožujka 2016.
- Posted by: Zimo Digital
- Category: Nekategorizirano @en

The Croatian Business Angels Network (CRANE), in cooperation with the Core Incubator, is organizing a Startup Wednesday with Davor Tremac, General Manager at Uber for Croatia. The lecture will be held on March 30 at 17, at the CoreHUB, Hondlova 2/9, Zagreb.
Davor Tremac, a lecturer at the next Startup Wednesday, is the General Manager at Uber for Croatia. He will be speaking about Uber, focusing on their start-up experiences, and reflect on Croatia as an environment for founding new start-ups, especially those whose technologies could be called disruptive. Tremac has 7 years of experience behind him in the company McKinsey&Company, where he worked on many projects in the area of telecommunications, the media and technology throughout Europe and Southeast Asia. Along with his consulting career, he is a cofounder of the internet start-up which secured him investments from the VC funds and expanded his business to Germany, Great Britain and Brazil.
Uber is a tech platform based on a simple premise – with only one click on your smartphone you can order a vehicle with a driver and be on your way to your destination in a matter of minutes. It was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp in San Francisco, and expanded internationally already in 2012. Today Uber is available in nearly 400 cities in 66 countries, it employs over 5,500 people globally, and the network of Uber’s driver-partners includes 2 million people worldwide.
One the main assets of Uber is their business model which allows a high level of automation and offers the driver-partners flexibility in their work as well as low costs. The efficacy of their business model was recognized by many other companies that decided to copy it, which led to a trend called “Uberization.” By the end of 2015 the investments amounted to a total of over 10 billion dollars. The last investment cycle, worth 2.1 billion dollars, was concluded at the end of last year, which increased Uber’s total worth to 62.5 billion dollars, and made it the most valuable unicorn start-up in the world.