书籍介绍
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silicon Valley startup at the center of one of the great venture capital power struggles of our time.
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.
Award-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant.
What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s 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. With billions of dollars at stake, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO.
Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and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.
AI导读
核心看点
- 揭秘Uber从崛起到创始人被驱逐的戏剧性历程
- 展现硅谷风投权力斗争与狼性企业文化
- 剖析卡兰尼克激进策略与监管博弈内幕
适合谁读
- 对硅谷创业史与科技巨头兴衰感兴趣的读者
- 关注商业管理、企业治理及创始人文化的读者
- 喜欢非虚构商业传记及职场权谋故事的读者
读前提醒
- 作者对创始人持批判态度，阅读时注意辨别立场
- 书中涉及大量硅谷八卦与内部斗争，情节紧凑
- 建议结合美剧《超蓬勃》对比阅读，体验更佳
读者共识
- 故事跌宕起伏，董事会内斗情节极具戏剧张力
- 深刻揭示了硅谷‘增长至上’文化的阴暗面
- 虽细节丰富，但部分读者认为作者主观色彩较重
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "He saw himself locked in an existential battle with corrupt, entrenched taxi operators and the politicians they paid to protect them. Kalanick was the general on the front lines."
- "If government decided to push back in any individual city, Kalanick quickly weaponized his users against City Hall. Uber would blast emils out to riders, asking them to contact their local representatives and voice their frustration with an-Uber crackkdowns."
- "Graves, Geidt, and especially Kalanick weren't above playing dirty. They started booking secret meetings with regulators in San Francisco and encouraging them to go after Lyft and Sidecar. Where once Uber had scoffed at City Hall, now they implored city officials to shot other companies down."
- "Kalanick enjoyed the fight. At first he began to needle John Zimmer, Lyft's co-founder, on Twitter. In playful jabs, he would troll Zimmer by asking about Lyft's insurance policies, business practices, and other seemingly esoteric shoptalk. Then he would start picking Zimmer and Lyft's business apar"
- "Later, as Uber matured, the company's staff welled to include nearly four hundred paid lobbyists across forty-four states; the number of ride-hailing lobbyists outnumbered the paid lobying staffs of Amazon, Microsoft, and Walmart combined. The money was well spent... Uber could define Uber drivers a"
- "After the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission blocked Uber from operating in St. Louis, Sagar Shah, Uber's local general manager, called location television news stations and print reporters to the MTC offices, where a line of Uber employees marched up with nine white, 15-by-12-inch file-folder storage "
- "DiDi's city managers would pay local taxi operators to protest Uber's peer-to-peer car services. They'd send fake texts to Uber's drivers, claiming that Uber had shut down in China and that drivers should switch over to driving for DiDi. One of DiDi's preferred tactics was to send new recruits over "
- "With just a smattering of code inside Uber's Mobile app, InAuth could track down the device identification number of the iPhone used to install the app, a technique known as "fingerprinting" in the security and fraud industry. Once a phone was "fingerprinted", it was much easier for Uber to tell if "
作者简介
Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco, California.
用户评论
一般般，too dramatic and Mike I has an ax to grind against TK. The bias is too obvious for my liking.
正好趁着刚刚Uber的新闻，为大家介绍这本书，讲述Uber创始人Travis Kalanick创办Uber到最后被公司扫地出门的故事，看完再想想要不要持有Uber的股票
It's constantly compared to Bad Blood, but I personally find it less triumphant as the storytelling is a bit scattered. It's apparent that growth at all costs is not a sustainable strategy. But it's so easy to lose sight of it when you are caught up in day-to-day operations. A cautionary tale for growth-obessed entrepreneurs.
热血沸腾，群星闪耀
Benchmark和一堆投资人咬文嚼字写给Kalanick通牒信的桥段印象最深。。其次是Kalanick如何被Google无人驾驶的远景震撼 但千万别再出一本wework的书了吧
热血沸腾又心惊胆战的日子
How it started the hard business and conquer all the challenges and difficulties even it means walking on the edge of bankruptcy and illegality.but I am more drawn into the second half, the drama and corporate fight. Super pumped and hustle for all entrepreneurs
太好看了 但是我不喜欢作者 太偏颇了 by what right does the wolf judge the lion? 况且作者也算不上一匹冰原狼 Kalanick 太酷了 期待他的下一个产品 2021第5本书
好看！希望Uber的初创团队哪怕不是当下也有一天会感谢有人帮他们记录了这段不平凡的岁月
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