A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silicon Valley startup at the center of one of the great venture capital power struggles of our time.
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.
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. 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. A near instant “unicorn,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant.
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. 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. With billions of dollars at stake, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO.
Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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 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, California.
写得太精彩了。和Bad Blood 一样地让人放不下,更何况,Uber 更贴近我们的生活。现如今,谁还没坐过Uber , 和司机聊过天,听他们抱怨过这家“该死的剥削他们血汗的”公司;生活在硅谷,谁还不认识几个在那里工作的员工,忍受着难吃的饭菜,沉重的工作量,咬着牙熬到IPO的那天,...
评分写得太精彩了。和Bad Blood 一样地让人放不下,更何况,Uber 更贴近我们的生活。现如今,谁还没坐过Uber , 和司机聊过天,听他们抱怨过这家“该死的剥削他们血汗的”公司;生活在硅谷,谁还不认识几个在那里工作的员工,忍受着难吃的饭菜,沉重的工作量,咬着牙熬到IPO的那天,...
评分写得太精彩了。和Bad Blood 一样地让人放不下,更何况,Uber 更贴近我们的生活。现如今,谁还没坐过Uber , 和司机聊过天,听他们抱怨过这家“该死的剥削他们血汗的”公司;生活在硅谷,谁还不认识几个在那里工作的员工,忍受着难吃的饭菜,沉重的工作量,咬着牙熬到IPO的那天,...
评分写得太精彩了。和Bad Blood 一样地让人放不下,更何况,Uber 更贴近我们的生活。现如今,谁还没坐过Uber , 和司机聊过天,听他们抱怨过这家“该死的剥削他们血汗的”公司;生活在硅谷,谁还不认识几个在那里工作的员工,忍受着难吃的饭菜,沉重的工作量,咬着牙熬到IPO的那天,...
评分写得太精彩了。和Bad Blood 一样地让人放不下,更何况,Uber 更贴近我们的生活。现如今,谁还没坐过Uber , 和司机聊过天,听他们抱怨过这家“该死的剥削他们血汗的”公司;生活在硅谷,谁还不认识几个在那里工作的员工,忍受着难吃的饭菜,沉重的工作量,咬着牙熬到IPO的那天,...
读的super pumped
评分I am already super pumped while reading this
评分第三十章将 Kalanick 赶出 Uber 是最精彩的一章。书摘:https://readings.posthaven.com/super-pumped-by-mike-isaac
评分整体故事精彩,Uber故事一口气比不断追精彩很多,但如果记者本身有实战经验,那么还有很多细节可以挖掘
评分个人和资本的贪婪。
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