SuperPumped

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that marked the end of a tumultuous year for the transportation giant. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by an ambitious founder, Uber had become a symbol of the failures of Silicon Valley. Super Pumped, an award-winning book by New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac, presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber against a backdrop of rapid upheaval in the technology industry.

Isaac recounts the pitched battles Uber fought against tax unions and drivers, exposes the toxic internal culture of the company, and reveals the bare-knuckled tactics it used to overcome obstacles. With billions of dollars at stake, Isaac shows how venture capitalists seized control of the startup as it struggled to reach 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 Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, and a cautionary tale of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong.

作者简介

MikeIsaacisatechnologyreporterattheNewYorkTimeswhoseUbercoveragewontheGeraldLoebAwardfordistinguishedbusinessreporting.HewritesfrequentlyaboutUber,FacebookandotherSiliconValleygiantsfortheTimes,andappearsoftenonCNBCandMSNBC.HelivesinSanFrancisco,California.