Technology journalist and author
Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at The New York Times and the bestselling author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. His coverage of Silicon Valley giants has earned him a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting.
by Mike Isaac
Isaac, the New York Times reporter who broke many of the Uber scandal stories, reconstructs Travis Kalanick's rise and ouster through the Greyball tool, the Susan Fowler memo, and the Benchmark board fight. The book argues that Uber's growth-at-any-cost culture was a logical endpoint of Silicon Valley's founder-worship ideology.
The books Mike Isaac references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Brad Stone
Stone chronicles Bezos's relentless, customer-obsessed drive to transform Amazon from online bookstore into global commerce and cloud empire. Visionary brilliance meets ruthless execution.
by Steven Levy
Levy had unprecedented access to Google's founders, engineers, and executives over two years to chronicle the company's algorithms, culture, and strategic battles. Levy argues that Google's engineering-led culture and willingness to automate judgement represented a fundamentally new way of building a company.
by Ashlee Vance
Vance conducted dozens of interviews with Musk, his family, and colleagues to trace his arc from South African childhood through Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. Vance argues Musk is a composite of Edison, Ford, Hughes, and Jobs who pushes his teams past conventional limits to pursue civilizational-scale goals.
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson portrays Jobs as a study in contradictions - visionary and cruel, obsessive and brilliant. His core thesis: Jobs' relentless pursuit of perfection and control over end-to-end products reshaped entire industries.
Who Mike draws from, and who draws from Mike — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.