Super pumped : the battle for Uber
Isaac, Mike2019
Book
In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the 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 symbolise everything wrong with Silicon Valley. This book 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 Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behaviour, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
Main title:
Super pumped : the battle for Uber / Mike Isaac.
Author:
Isaac, Mike, author
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2019.
Collation:
408 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780393652246 (hbk)
Dewey class:
388.4132120973388.413 ISA
Language:
English
BRN:
2900715