Super pumped : the battle for Uber /
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...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- X to the X
- The making of a founder
- Post-pop depression
- A new economy
- Upwardly immobile
- "Let the builders build"
- The tallest man in venture capital
- Pas de deux
- Champion's mindset
- The homeshow
- Big brother and little brother
- Growth
- The charm offensive
- Culture wars
- Empire building
- The apple problem
- "The best defense..."
- Clash of the self-driving cars
- Smooth sailing
- Three months prior
- #Deleteuber
- "One very, very strange year at Uber..."
- ...The harder they fall
- No one steals from Larry Page
- Greyball
- Fatal errors
- The holder report
- The syndicate
- Revenge of the venture capitalists
- Down but not out
- The grand bargain.