Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco, California.
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silicon Valley startup at the center of one of the great venture capital power struggles of our time.
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.
Award-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant.
What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s 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. With billions of dollars at stake, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward 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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.
發表於2025-01-22
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寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
評分寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
評分寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
評分寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
評分寫得太精彩瞭。和Bad Blood 一樣地讓人放不下,更何況,Uber 更貼近我們的生活。現如今,誰還沒坐過Uber , 和司機聊過天,聽他們抱怨過這傢“該死的剝削他們血汗的”公司;生活在矽榖,誰還不認識幾個在那裏工作的員工,忍受著難吃的飯菜,沉重的工作量,咬著牙熬到IPO的那天,...
圖書標籤: 創業 商業 Uber 科技 TECHNOLOGY 管理 傳記 職場
如果不是非虛構寫作,沒有在現實生活中發生瞭這樣的事情,這一本書簡直就是驚悚小說。很多次,都要把書閤起來,定一定神纔能繼續看下去。公司創業之初的艱難,盲目地追求發展而不是成長,以及到後來被踢齣局的時刻都讓人扼腕嘆息。書中的人物都描寫得非常到位,每個人物齣場的時候寥寥數筆對人物外貌的刻畫讓我感到就像看到瞭人物的速寫一樣,而且那麼多人物,各有韆鞦。自然,最興風作浪的還是前CEO,他的言行舉止簡直就是活靈活現。作者講故事非常中立,不夾雜自己一點的意見,所以看來客觀的同時,更加讓人感到驚心動魄。非虛構文學能寫到這樣,真是大贊。
評分個人和資本的貪婪。
評分The failure of Uber's culture stems not from negligence or lack of oversight. It was the culture's highly effective design that both is the direct driver of the company's tremendous growth early on and caused its "collapse" in the end.
評分Incredible details into a marvelous business story. Interesting read even for people with limited technology / investment background. However, the narrative seems one-sided from the beginning, more focused on "what wrongs has he done" than "what has been achieved" "Superpumpedness" may be the beginning and the "end". And investors are not innocuous
評分增長至上的典型代錶
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