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Super Pumped

The Battle for Uber

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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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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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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.

Incredible story but poor audio quality

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I often wonder what readers expect when I read their reviews after reading the book!

Good book

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This books was amazing, it’s a story that has everything in it, just amazing. It has determination, hardwork, perseverance, greed, jealously, oh man it has everything. I swear this would make an amazing film.

This needs to be made into a film

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Great from start to finish. There will never be another Uber or another Travis!

Just brilliant

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An amazing story of how messed up Uber is. A bit long and slows down at the end but worth a listen.

A bit all over the place but good.

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