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Super Pumped The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac

New York Times 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.

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Pod Save America

It was discussed that Mike Isaac, the author of Super Pumped, had a recent interview regarding Elon Musk's first Twitter staff meeting.

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So you just wrote about the latest developments around the richest man in the world buying one of the world's most politically influential social media platforms, unfortunately.

— Episode: “Get The Pardon Started.” Live from Oakl...

Episode: “Get The Pardon Started.” Live from Oakland!

It was discussed that Mike Isaac, the author of Super Pumped, had a recent interview regarding Elon Musk's first Twitter staff meeting.

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So you just wrote about the latest developments around the richest man in the world buying one of the world's most politically influential social media platforms, unfortunately.

Episode: “How Mark Zucked America.”

It was mentioned by Jon Lovett, who recalled that Mike Isaac, the author, was involved in a disagreement with other journalists about the name of a story related to Facebook.

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Mike Isaac was the one arguing us using that branding. He's like super fun. He wrote Super Pumped, that great Uber book that everyone loved.

Episode: “The Do Something Democrats.”

Mike Isaac's book, Super Pumped, was discussed and recommended by the hosts. It details Uber's history, its culture, and the broader Silicon Valley tech industry.

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I cannot recommend your book enough. It is an amazing read. It's just like the reporting details you have are amazing. It tells a really compelling story.

It tells a really compelling story. But I think it also tells a broader story about business in Silicon Valley in particular.

Please check out his book, Super Pumped, The Battle for Uber. It is a phenomenal read. It would make a great holiday gift.

It's an Uber book, but I like to say it's not really just about Uber.

Episode: “How Mark Zucked America.”

It was described as a great book about Uber, and was well-liked by the podcast hosts.

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Mike Isaac was the one arguing us using that branding. He's like super fun. He wrote Super Pumped, that great Uber book that everyone loved.

The Toast

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The Toast

They noted that the upcoming Uber series was based on Mike Isaac's bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.

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The first season is based on Mike Isaac's bestselling book Super Pumped the Battle for Uber.

— Episode: S4 Ep95: Forty Quiet Minutes: Tuesday, M...

Episode: S4 Ep95: Forty Quiet Minutes: Tuesday, May 25th, 2...

They noted that the upcoming Uber series was based on Mike Isaac's bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.

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The first season is based on Mike Isaac's bestselling book Super Pumped the Battle for Uber.

Pivot

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Pivot

The podcast hosts discussed the Showtime series based on Mike Isaac's book, focusing on Travis Kalanick and the rise of Uber. They analyzed the cost of disruption, the characters involved, and the ethical implications of the company's practices.

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It started with the book. You're very close with Mike Isaac.

— Episode: Oscars Reactions, Apple Subscriptions, a...

Episode: Oscars Reactions, Apple Subscriptions, and The Tea...

The podcast hosts discussed the Showtime series based on Mike Isaac's book, focusing on Travis Kalanick and the rise of Uber. They analyzed the cost of disruption, the characters involved, and the ethical implications of the company's practices.

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It started with the book. You're very close with Mike Isaac.

We didn't start with a desire to tell this kind of story. It was like, we read Mike's book and then that book seemed to us to ask a lot of questions we wanted to ask about the cost of disruption and the rewards of disruption.

And then these characters were like Shakespearean characters in real life.

So yes, Travis won and the company won and I agree with you about basically a lot of what you said but let's just examine the safe rides fee, the thing we started with.

If I look at the geofencing they did over Apple that notion is so outrageous to me that if it's as micro-ported again I don't have any special knowledge but what micro-ported in the book is that Travis made a promise to Eddie Q and Tim Cook and that promise was this tracking software will not be in the app anymore.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

It was mentioned as a book that Saagar had read, detailing Tim Cook's involvement at the app store level with major companies, and how Apple's business strategy evolved after Steve Jobs.

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There's a book I read, blanking on the name, [...], called like "Apple after Steve Jobs" and talks [...], because the point is that Apple really stopped innovating at the very highest level with new p...

— Episode: 12/1/22: Biden Rail Strike, Interest Rat...

Episode: 12/1/22: Biden Rail Strike, Interest Rates, Twitte...

It was mentioned as a book that Saagar had read, detailing Tim Cook's involvement at the app store level with major companies, and how Apple's business strategy evolved after Steve Jobs.

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There's a book I read, blanking on the name, [...], called like "Apple after Steve Jobs" and talks [...], because the point is that Apple really stopped innovating at the very highest level with new products, but they quadrupled their stock price and revenue because they started looking at it as a uh platform as a service on which you can continue to upsell customers and lock people into the ecosystem.

Episode: 12/3/22 - Weekly Roundup: Taylor Lorenz, Balenciag...

It was mentioned in passing that Saagar had previously read this book, and that Tim Cook had been involved in a situation mentioned in the book.

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I talked previously about that book Super Pumped that I read.

Acquired

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Acquired

It was the basis for the Showtime series of the same name, and it was discussed in detail during the episode, including the story's origins and evolution into a television show.

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Mike Isaac sent me his book. We're going to go tell this story.

— Episode: Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and J...

Episode: Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gord...

It was the basis for the Showtime series of the same name, and it was discussed in detail during the episode, including the story's origins and evolution into a television show.

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Mike Isaac sent me his book. We're going to go tell this story.

Mike DMed me on Twitter. Would you read my book? It's not coming out for five months.

Mike was in the writer's room every day.

And what was great in the room is we'd be in the room and we'd go, what do we really think happened in that room? What's your sourcing?

That's in the book. It's in Mike's book.

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