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.
"Mike Isaac’s dramatic account of the rise and fall of Uber at the
hands of founder Travis Kalanick is all thriller."
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"Travis Kalanick changed an entire industry, made billions of
dollars, and made a company into a verb, and he did so by
destroying anything and anyone who stepped in his way. A riveting
read about bro culture gone awry."
*Nick Bilton - Vanity Fair*
"Mike Isaac reveals the toe-curling tale of how Travis Kalanick
drove a revolutionary taxi app to global success — and the
brink."
*The Sunday Times*
"[Isaac’s] meticulously reported account of Uber’s trajectory
avoids the easy paths."
*Nitasha Tiku - Wired*
"... entertaining and well-researched book…"
*Business Book of the Year 2019 - The Sunday Times*
"If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to
read this book. The tale of Uber, the queen of the so-called
‘unicorns,’ is a parable about power—and the lengths to which some
startup founders will go to amass it and hold onto it. Aside from
being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s account is also teeming with
new revelations that will shock and outrage you."
*John Carreyrou*
"[Isaac] spins a compelling yarn that chronicles the transit
company’s unruly development into… a publicly traded,
billion-dollar global behemoth, often aided by spying on
competitors and outwitting transportation regulators… [Super
Pumped] is no dry business profile but a tale that Isaac has deeply
reported yet still made accessible."
*William Nottingham - Los Angeles Times*
"What makes 'Super Pumped' different, and justifies its description
as a page-turner rather than a dry corporate history, is the
visceral world in which Kalanick was determined to operate. It’s a
gripping account of Uber’s rapid rise, its 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."
*Engineering and Technology*
"Isaac is great at the ticktock of events as they unfold, but his
best work comes when he steps back to examine the bigger
picture."
*Leslie Berlin - The New York Times Book Review*
"... if you want to understand how some of Silicon Valley’s biggest
players tick, this is the book for you."
*City AM*
"Tenacious New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac
chronicles the dramatic rise, fall and subsequent hand-wringing at
the world’s most controversial start-up."
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