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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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.
##寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
評分##A corporate cautionary tale. Definitely a good read to understand modern-day Silicon Valley.
評分##A corporate cautionary tale. Definitely a good read to understand modern-day Silicon Valley.
評分 評分##把Uber的發展史寫得很有故事性,不是簡單的事實羅列
評分講的是uber的故事,事故是真的多,但不妨礙他們成功地集資擴展業務全球雇傭這麼多人。說他們tech bro的文化估計沒人懷疑,侵犯隱私的事也在報道中看瞭太多。但是作者真的非常不喜歡Travis,在開始講故事之前就用瞭很多負麵的詞匯形容他,就讓我很難覺得這本書寫得客觀,好的記者應該用事實說話。
評分##一般般,too dramatic and Mike I has an ax to grind against TK. The bias is too obvious for my liking.
評分##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
評分##How it started the hard business and conquer all the challenges and difficulties even it means walking on the edge of bankruptcy and illegality.but I am more drawn into the second half, the drama and corporate fight. Super pumped and hustle for all entrepreneurs
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