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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-19
Amazing writing
Mike Isaac proved that he’s great at what he does. Really enjoyed listening to this 12 hour story. The story is built up in a journalist way, so I had doubts sometimes if we are being told the whole story but regardless, very informative and engaging book. Couldn’t put it down by the end.
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- Jamie
- 17-09-21
Incredible story but poor audio quality
The audio was very muffled throughout. Not sure if it was due to the readers voice or the audio quality but it made it harder to listen to.
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- Pest of Buda
- 24-10-19
Innovation, lawbreaking and an obscene amount of $
I can't quite believe it myself, but, this book about technology, money making, corruption, greed, law breaking and innovation was a real page turner.
I only chose it as part of the Wired.co.uk book club, not expecting to even get through it. But I did. My favourite part was about how they quite unashamedly found ways to hack the system to gain personal data, prevent access to data and do it all on the down low.
I'm going to take my hat off to the narrator/s, as it was their enthusiasm and energy that really super pumped me through this story.
Bring on the next wired.co.uk book!
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- Pete Mc
- 30-06-20
Douchebags galore
salutory tale of greed rampart testosterone and brilliance. great story telling about a simple idea that ended up being worth billions but without any regard to the collateral damage wreaked on anyone who stood in the way. I would have liked more on the actual battles with the establishment but I couldn't stop listening. The "bro culture "what a dreadful way to live your life
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- Marlon J
- 07-01-23
Excellent Read….
Throughly enjoyed this audio book. Gave me inspiration watch the series on Paramount+.
Highly recommended
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- Anh
- 18-12-22
A great book to enjoy reading and explore the madness of tech companies
Really engaging narrative and great storyline to really understand how Uber started. Probably more about Travis himself and how bad he may have been, but knowing how uber distupted the whole transport business, it may have been the way to go
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- Dom Dunn
- 11-01-23
Great book! Highly recommend
Pretty incredible story, really enjoyed it. Highly recommend. Travis sounds like a complete nightmare. Nice job Mike!!
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- Eric
- 07-09-19
Great book, Mike knows this story better than anyone
Really enjoyable book, I’ve been following Mike for years, and have seen a lot of what he writes about, albeit at a smaller scale, happening everywhere in the industry. Great story, writing, and well reported.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-12-19
excellent book and narration
It gave a great insight into the Uber story which Is fascinating to say the least. A rollercoaster still being played out
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- Fred
- 18-04-20
Uberlievable
I feel emotionally exhausted after listening to this book on a marathon session. I couldn't stop listening. The question we all ask ourselves after stories like this "How could this happen?"
Congratulations to Mike Isaac. His writing is superb.
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