Mother of Uber Chief Executive Killed in Boating Accident -
By MIKE ISAAC and BENJAMIN WEISERMAY 27, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — The mother of Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, was killed
and his father was seriously injured in a boating accident on Friday near Fresno, Calif., the company said on Saturday.
Bonnie Kalanick, 71, was a veteran of the newspaper industry who had long had a close relationship
with her son Travis, whom she raised with her husband, Donald, in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Travis and his family in this heartbreaking time.” Travis Kalanick did not issue his own statement.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s coroner’s office said in a statement on Friday
that it received a call shortly before 5 p.m. reporting a boating accident at Pine Flat Lake.
Mr. Kalanick has built the ride-hailing company Uber into a nearly $70 billion juggernaut,
operating in hundreds of cities across dozens of countries around the world.
Bonnie and Donald Kalanick played an immense role in the development and rearing of their son Travis, friends and colleagues have said.
“Last night, Travis and his family suffered an unspeakable tragedy,” the spokesman, Matt Kallman, said in a statement.
Donald Kalanick was rushed to a nearby hospital and listed in serious condition, the company said.
