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Super pumped : the battle for Uber / Mike Isaac.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020.Description: xx, 387 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393358612
  • 0393358615
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.4/132120973
LOC classification:
  • HE 5620 I73s 2020
Contents:
X to the X The making of a founder Post-pop depression A new economy Upwardly immobile "Let builders build" The tallest man in venture capital Pas de deux Champion's mindset The homeshow Big brother and little brother Growth The charm offensive Culture wars Empire building The Apple problem "The best defense ..." Clash of the self-driving cars Smooth sailing Three months prior #Deleteuber "One very, very strange year at Uber ..." ... The harder they fall No one steals from Larry Page Greyball Fatal errors The Holder report The syndicate Revenge of the venture capitalists Down but not out The grand bargain
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 Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HE 5620 I73s 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000174516

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index.

X to the X
The making of a founder
Post-pop depression
A new economy
Upwardly immobile
"Let builders build"
The tallest man in venture capital
Pas de deux
Champion's mindset
The homeshow
Big brother and little brother
Growth
The charm offensive
Culture wars
Empire building
The Apple problem
"The best defense ..."
Clash of the self-driving cars
Smooth sailing
Three months prior
#Deleteuber
"One very, very strange year at Uber ..."
... The harder they fall
No one steals from Larry Page
Greyball
Fatal errors
The Holder report
The syndicate
Revenge of the venture capitalists
Down but not out
The grand bargain

"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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