Uber: the app that changed how the world hails a taxi

How James Bond, an abusive Parisian cabbie and one man’s frustration with going out in San Francisco led to a transport revolution• Brad Stone Q&A: ‘We should watch Uber and Airbnb closely’The whole thing might not have happened without Bond – James Bond. It was mid-2008, the Canadian entrepreneur Garrett Camp had just sold his first company, the website discovery engine StumbleUpon, to eBay for $75m. Now he was living large, enjoying San Francisco’s nightl