Uber ex-CEO Kalanick rebrands latest venture Atoms, expands into mining and transport
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Travis Kalanick is renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms, while focusing on robotics for mining and transportation.
Uber founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick has renamed his latest venture as Atoms and said on Friday that he's expanding beyond food and into mining and transportation.
After being forced to resign from Uber in 2017, Kalanick joined joined City Storage Systems as CEO the following year. City Storage is the parent of ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens, which Kalanick quickly grew to a reported $15 billion valuation by 2022.
Kalanick, who founded Uber in 2009, said on the "TBPN" podcast on Friday that Atoms has been operating in stealth for eight years with "thousands of employees." And on the new Atoms website, Kalanick wrote close to 1,700 words laying out his mission.
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