In the weeks before founding Uber Technologies Co. in 2009, Travis Kalanick, then 32, tweeted about rubbing elbows with entrepreneurs and celebrities, and posted pictures of a party he threw with $100 bottles of wine. The founder of Uber’s nemesis in China appeared to be preoccupied with far less glamorous activities. Shortly before founding...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 17, 2016 06:33 UTC