![]() Mike Isaac has been covering Uber for years. With billions of dollars in the balance, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO. 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. 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. A near instant “unicorn,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant. 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. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.Īward-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. 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. With Mike in conversation is Casey Newton (The Interface). In 2020, he left to create his own newsletter on Substack called Platformer.Booksmith hosts New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac for the San Francisco launch of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Afterward, between 20, he covered Silicon Valley at The Verge and became a senior editor.In addition, he authored a daily newsletter called The Interface,which had grown to 20,000 subscribers. He worked as a blogger and senior writer for CNET until 2013. Kristin Go, a former coworker at The Arizona Republic, invited him to work at the San Francisco Chronicle to cover tech companies and new technology, which Newton accepted. Newton had been covering the Arizona State Legislature for The Arizona Republic, with an interest in technology as a hobby. She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web” and co-author of the sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere.” Swisher is an editor-at-large at New York Media, host of the “Pivot” podcast and executive producer of the Code Conference. In addition to her contributions to The Times, Ms. The duo later founded Recode, which was sold to Vox in 2015. With her longtime collaborator Walt Mossberg, she was a co-producer of the technology conference “D: All Things Digital,” where they interviewed major tech figures including Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Swisher moved to the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s as one of the first reporters on the internet beat and eventually began her popular “Boom Town” column. ![]() She subsequently received a graduate degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, became an editor at The City Paper in Washington, D.C., and interned at The Washington Post, where she worked her way up to reporter and covered nascent digital companies like America Online (a.k.a. Swisher studied at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she wrote her first technology story for the school paper (it was in 1980 - and the technology was pay phones). ![]() Her early and no-holds-barred coverage of the technology industry earned her a reputation as “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist.” Swisher has hosted hundreds of newsmaking interviews, going head-to-head with prominent figures including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Stacey Abrams, Kim Kardashian and President Barack Obama. She has been a contributing Opinion writer since 2018. Kara Swisher is the host of “Sway,” the new twice-weekly interview podcast about power by New York Times Opinion. To receive a complimentary ticket just email the word “grapefruit” and the title of this event Kara Swisher: Manny’s never turns away anyone for lack of funds. Make sure to come ready with all your questions! So, what the hell is going on with tech? Join us at Manny’s for a special conversation with Sway host & NYT columnist Kara Swisher and tech reporter Casey Newton as we dive into all the recent drama. From companies laying off large swathes of their employees to the potential fall of Twitter after its controversial sale to Elon Musk there is a LOT to unpack… ![]() In the last couple of weeks, the tech world has experienced many changes. What is the future of the tech industry? ![]()
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