作者：MikeIsaac
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company;1edition
副标题：TheBattleforUber
出版年：2019-9-3
页数：408
定价：USD21.49
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780393652246
内容简介
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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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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.
作者简介
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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.
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How it started the hard business and conquer all the challenges and difficulties even it means walking on the edge of bankruptcy and illegality.but I am more drawn into the second half, the drama and …
个人和资本的贪婪。
惊心动魄的故事。无论是Uber的创办过程，Travis的早年经历，还是最后Benchmark和Travis的对决，刺激！恰好几天前刚读完讲Benchmark创办的书eBoys，然后又和Bill Gurley和Matt Cohler开了会，真没想到是看起来温和文气的Matt Cohler去代表Syndicate给Travis下最后通牒……
WSJ/NYT记者们写的东西都是一个味儿的
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