Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

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W. W. Norton & Company, Sep 3, 2019 - Business & Economics - 416 pages

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Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday Times
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
“If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times best-selling author of Bad Blood

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

Prologue
X TO THE X
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

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About the author (2019)

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.

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