Bibliograph

Super pumped, the battle for Uber, Mike Isaac

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Label

Super pumped, the battle for Uber, Mike Isaac

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Super pumped

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1090686951

Responsibility statement

Mike Isaac

Sub title

the battle for Uber

Summary

"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 Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and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"--, Provided by publisher

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