Super Pumped

In June 2017, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, was ousted in a ambush by the company's board. The transportation company catapulted to the top of the tech world yet came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. Award-winning reporter Mike Isaac’s saga of Uber’s rise and fall, ‘Super Pumped,’ presents a dramatic narrative 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. The 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.