According to the founder and CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, it took five years to reach its billionth trip, and just six months to reach the next billion.
1 billion rides in six months! This means the online transportation network company was providing an average of 5.5 million rides a day, or 230,000 an hour.
Travis took to his Facebook page to celebrate this feat.
As at 4:16 AM GMT on Saturday, June 18, 147 Uber rides started—tying for its two billionth trip.
These trips happened in 16 countries on five continents, from Costa Rica to Russia and from China to Australia. The longest of the bunch lasted more than an hour as the rider and driver worked their way across Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. The shortest, a POOL trip in Changsha, China, lasted just three minutes.
Today Uber is in 450 cities around the world and the company will be giving $450 to each of these 147 lucky drivers and riders.
