Super Pumped

The Battle for Uber

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Super Pumped

By: Mike Isaac

Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac

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A 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.

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. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize 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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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 12-month periods in American corporate history.

History & Culture

Technology & Society

Workplace & Organisational Behavior

Workplace Culture

Business

Inspiring

Innovation

Silicon Valley

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I can't quite believe it myself, but, this book about technology, money making, corruption, greed, law breaking and innovation was a real page turner.

I only chose it as part of the Wired.co.uk book club, not expecting to even get through it. But I did. My favourite part was about how they quite unashamedly found ways to hack the system to gain personal data, prevent access to data and do it all on the down low.

I'm going to take my hat off to the narrator/s, as it was their enthusiasm and energy that really super pumped me through this story.

Bring on the next wired.co.uk book!

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