7 people you never realized were early investors in Uber

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is already a multi-billionaire who invested early in startups like Google, Domo, Airbnb, and (yours truly) Business Insider.

A big exit on his early Uber investment will make him that much richer.

Airbnb cofounder and CEO — and early Uber investor — Brian Chesky is prepping for his own IPO in 2019.

Cyan Banister, a partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has spoken publicly about her astonishing transformation from living on the streets as a teenager to making multi-million dollar investments in the future of tech.

She invested in Uber as an angel investor long before joining a VC firm.

Gary Vaynerchuk made his millions by growing the family wine business into a success. But he became famous for launching media companies VaynerMedia and VaynerX.

While his most recent public project was the reality TV show "Planet of the Apps," which he starred on along side will.i.am and Gwyneth Paltrow, Uber's big exit could be the biggest day of his life.

Naval Ravikant — known to some by his Twitter handle, @Naval — is an influential voice in the startup scene, in part because he founded AngelList, a website dedicated to matching startups with investors like himself. So it's no wonder he was a seed investor in Uber.

David Sacks was a founding COO at PayPal, so when it got acquired by eBay, he became a member of the PayPal Mafia — ex-PayPal employees who used their new money to invest in startups or launch their own, thus creating a whole new wave of tech.

Though Sacks went on to found Yammer and work as an interim CEO at Zenefits, he also used some of that cash to fund part of Uber's seed round.