Description In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant.
Isaac delivers a gripping account of Uber\'s rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company\'s toxic internal culture, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance..
Annotation In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant.
Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.
Mike Isaac has been covering Uber for years.
With billions of dollars in the balance, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO.
Isaac recounts Uber\'s pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company\'s toxic internal culture, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance.
What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong.
A near instant "unicorn," Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant.
Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world.
Award-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac\'s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley.
Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.
Description In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant
