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Super Pumped

The Battle for Uber

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Super Pumped

Written by: Mike Isaac
Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
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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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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 12-month periods in American corporate history.

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Mike does a great job exposing the tech bro culture at the heart of Uber and the struggles they had all over the world in the process of becoming the dominant ride hailing service in most of the world. It will sober you to learn how much of Uber is built on exploiting a loophole where they treat their drivers as contractors rather than full time employees in order to avoid paying them a fixed hourly wage or covering any essential medical bills. Treating their drivers as third party contractors also seems to make them exempt from the labor laws which place restrictions on the number of hours worked in a day.

Goes deep into the workings of Uber

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One of the best books to come out of the recent business world. What an utter socialist takedown of Uber and of the gods of silicon valley. And so so well written. Bravo!

Super Pumped is superb

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Great insight on maneuvering with share holding composition for keeping check on companies control.
Classic boardroom battle.
& lots of food for thoughts about leadership, skillsets, passion & ethics.

Exceptional story encompassing - what ought to be & what not to be

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