Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac

Sep 2019 · W. W. Norton & Company

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Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday Times
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
“If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times best-selling author of Bad Blood

Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic 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.

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. 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.

Ratings and reviews

I hate reading.... And I got this book to read about the start of Uber... I have to say I read this book cover to cover non stop in 6 hours flat.... What a great read.. it's absurd the things this company got away with!!! You will not be disappointed.

Chapters continuously end in climax where it seems "that" must be the end of either the story or the exciting parts of the entire story - but repeatedly restarts and finds new gripping chapters and stories. Only a true story could be so mind-wrapping!

You'll thank Mike Isaac's later for reading this work of art of our generation!!!

About the author

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.