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