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100	1		_aIsaac, Mike, _eauthor. _918615
245	1	0	_aSuper pumped : _bthe battle for Uber / _cMike Isaac.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c[2019]
300			_axx, 387 pages; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
501			_aP.B
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index.
520			_a"A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. 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. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped 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 Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history"--
600	1	0	_aUber (Firm) _918616
650		0	_aRidesharing _zUnited States _xHistory. _918617
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