The sparkling City by the Bay beckoned, but Camp had no reliable way to answer its call. Habitually restless, frustrated by inefficiencies, and armed with a willingness to challenge authority, Camp came up with his first attempt at a solution: he would call all the yellow-taxi companies when he needed a cab. Then he would take the first one that arrived. Not surprisingly, the cab fleets didn’t like that tactic. Though it is impossible to confirm, Garrett Camp believes his cell phone was blacklisted by the San Francisco taxi companies. “Eventually they wouldn’t take my calls,” he says. “I was
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