Super Pumped

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolise everything wrong with Silicon Valley. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped 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.

Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behaviour, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.

About the author

Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times, whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco.

Summary

A The New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Isaac
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780393652246
• ISBN: 978-0-393-65224-6
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Transport industries, Working patterns & practices, Impact of science & technology on society, History of specific companies / corporate history, Working patterns and practices, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies