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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac

Uber’s rise as a corporate cautionary tale

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Uber’s rise as a corporate cautionary tale

Mike Isaac’s account frames Uber’s growth as a collision between technological ambition, venture-capital backing and the conduct of its leadership. The company’s promise to transform the movement of people and goods provides the backdrop for an examination of startup culture and the risks of elevating founders beyond scrutiny. The description also situates Uber’s story within a turbulent year in American corporate history, making the book’s focus broader than the fortunes of a single transportation company: it considers how innovation and wealth can coexist with damaging organizational behavior.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Uber and the transportation industry.
  • Readers exploring startup culture, venture capital and corporate leadership.
  • Readers interested in business accounts of Silicon Valley companies.

Themes

Startup cultureVenture capitalFounder worship and accountabilityTransportation technologyCorporate conduct

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Book overview

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.

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