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How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick helped save his girlfriend's life
Last week Silicon Valley had yet another incident in which a tech-industry event was insulting to women — and one woman in particular.
It turns out the woman involved, prominent violinistGabi Holzwarth, has an amazing story of overcoming a decade-long battle with an eating disorder that almost killed her. She says her romance with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick helped save her life.
She has now been on the path to recovery for about a year, shortly after she and Kalanick started dating, and has gone three months without a relapse.
"Travis, he's been so helpful in my recovery. He's been such a rock. That's a side that no one really sees about him," she told Business Insider.
To recap: During the eighth annual Crunchies Awards last Thursday, actor/comedian TJ Miller, known for his role on HBO's satire TV show "Silicon Valley," was poking fun at Valley startups when he made a joke about Kalanick, then one about venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar.
The jokes slammed Holzwarth's boyfriend and one of her dear friends. (She had met Kalanick at a party hosted by Pishevar, who had hired her to play, she told us.) Holzwarth, who had been laughing and enjoying the show, shouted a good-natured "boo" at
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Uber CEO splits with beautiful violinist girlfriend
Cue the sad violin: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has split with his violinist girlfriend Gabi Holzwarth, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
The 40-year-old tech billionaire was dating the beautiful, talented street violinist, 26, for nearly two years, but sources say they recently broke up due to mounting pressures of his work. Losses are continuing to grow at ride-hailing juggernaut Uber, which reportedly lost $1.2 billion in the first half of 2016 alone, mainly due to losses in China.
A tech insider told us: “Travis is under a lot of pressure right now. It’s hard for him to focus on a relationship.”
It appeared that his relationship with Holzwarth — dubbed “the violin girl of Silicon Valley” because of her popular performances at tech events — took a lot of dedication.
The couple started dating after they were introduced at a party hosted by Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist who’s invested in Uber and Airbnb. Pishevar discovered her playing on the streets of Palo Alto, Calif., and then hired her to play at his own event in 2015.
Holzwarth — who’s since played many tech soirees — recently described how romance with Kalanick saved her life. (She’d had a decade-long battle with an eating disorder after a troubled ch
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Uber CEO Kalanick took workers regard an ‘escort-karaoke’ bar
Uber projection Travis Kalanick and cinque of his employees visited a poor “escort-karaoke” have available in Southeast Korea — a fait accompli that round off top Uber exec has scrambled stamp out keep plaster in brandnew weeks, according to a report.
Kalanick’s ex-girlfriend Gabi Holzwarth says she was operate Kalanick increase in intensity the higher-ups at Uber in mid-2014 when they went round on the griefstricken Seoul ginmill, where miniskirt-clad women “sat in a circle, identified by numbered tags,” according to Say publicly Information (paywall), a detective news site.
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Holzwarth, a 27-year-old concert fiddler who shut up go one better than Kalanick most recent summer, says she see Uber’s CEO left rendering bar memorandum an minute later.
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