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Mike Isaac is an award-winning technology correspondent for The New York Times and the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, the definitive account of the ride-hailing giant's tumultuous rise and reckoning.
Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at The New York Times, where his coverage of Uber, Facebook, and Silicon Valley has won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He broke many of the stories that exposed Uber’s toxic culture and scandals.
His first book, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2019), drew on that deep reporting to tell the dramatic story of Uber’s meteoric rise, ethical excesses, and near-self-destruction under founder Travis Kalanick. Praised as the definitive account of the company and a sharp portrait of Silicon Valley’s win-at-all-costs culture, it was adapted into a Showtime television series.
Isaac is recognized as one of the leading chroniclers of the modern technology industry and its outsized personalities.
by Mike Isaac
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac's definitive account of Uber's spectacular rise and reckoning. From Travis Kalanick's ruthless ambition to the toxic culture, surveillance, and scandals that nearly destroyed the company, Super Pumped is a gripping, deeply reported portrait of Silicon Valley at its most aggressive.
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