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.
In this collection, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber references 4 other books.
It draws on The Everything Store, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
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Isaac explicitly writes in the tradition of Stone's The Everything Store, using it as the model for reconstructing a secretive tech company from hundreds of insider interviews
Isaac draws on Levy's In the Plex for the comparative Google culture that Kalanick admired and tried to adapt for Uber's engineering organisation
Vance's Elon Musk biography is cited as the precedent for the founder-as-force-of-nature narrative that Kalanick cultivated at Uber
Isaacson's Steve Jobs is referenced as the archetype of the abrasive-genius-founder myth that Kalanick self-consciously modeled himself on
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