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.
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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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.
##Definitely worth reading! random thoughts: 1. can you build uber without being a jerk? 2. still admire TK for what he has achieved 3. however whatever makes you can also break you 4. public has been turning against big tech / silicon valley since the election of Trump. they went after fb after uber's turmoil 5. media narrative is so important
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##TK这人真的事儿逼 对优步感兴趣的朋友看看无妨 其他就不推荐看了 各种细节太琐碎 可提炼的东西也不多
评分##把Uber的发展史写得很有故事性,不是简单的事实罗列
评分 评分 评分讲的是uber的故事,事故是真的多,但不妨碍他们成功地集资扩展业务全球雇佣这么多人。说他们tech bro的文化估计没人怀疑,侵犯隐私的事也在报道中看了太多。但是作者真的非常不喜欢Travis,在开始讲故事之前就用了很多负面的词汇形容他,就让我很难觉得这本书写得客观,好的记者应该用事实说话。
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