Super Pumped: The Battle for UberNow a SHOWTIME® original series starring Emmy winners Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. Now streaming – Only on SHOWTIME. Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic 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. 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. 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. |
Contents
THE MAKING OF A FOUNDER | |
POSTPOP DEPRESSION Chapter 4 A NEW ECONOMY | |
UPWARDLY IMMOBILE | |
LET BUILDERS BUILD | |
THE TALLEST MAN IN VENTURE CAPITAL | |
PAS DE DEUX | |
EMPIRE BUILDING | |
THE APPLE PROBLEM | |
THE BEST DEFENSE | |
CLASH OF THE SELF DRIVING CARS | |
SMOOTH SAILING | |
THREE MONTHS PRIOR | |
FALL | |
PART | |
CHAMPIONS MINDSET | |
BIG BROTHER AND LITTLE BROTHER | |
GROWTH | |
THE CHARM OFFENSIVE | |
CULTURE WARS | |
Epilogue | |
Postscript | |
A Note on Sources | |
DELETEUBER | |
ONE VERY VERY | |