--- product_id: 126209044 title: "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" price: "S/.99" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/126209044-super-pumped-the-battle-for-uber store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber **Price:** S/.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber - **How much does it cost?** S/.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/126209044-super-pumped-the-battle-for-uber) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber: 9780393652246: Isaac, Mike: Books Review: A truly gripping account of the rise and fall of a tech titan - Mike Isaac's Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber is an absolute page-turner. The author masterfully kept me completely hooked; it didn't feel like reading a business book, but rather an intense, real-life action movie. A thrilling and highly recommended deep dive into the Uber saga. Review: A good story, some head-scratching errors - Super Pumped tells the story of Uber, from its inception as a black car-hailing startup to one of the biggest private companies of all time. The story as it's told is quite compelling-- it cobbles together interviews with VCs, current and former employees, allies as well as adversaries of Travis Kalanick's, as well as bystanders. It's quite clear which accounts the author finds compelling and which he's more apt to dismiss. In all, it does present a work of deep reporting that tells a fascinating story. My biggest gripe is that it's rife with odd factual and narrative errors. A lot of these things are easy to find via a cursory Google search. Others contradict themselves a few pages later. Just a few-- the author writes that a modem that downloads at 1.5MBPS is "thousands of times" faster than one that downloads at 28KBPS. Simple math tells you that that isn't the case. Similarly, the author declares Kalanick to be a savant because he could calculate the approximate time it takes to get somewhere given the average speed and distance remaining. Maybe those kind of calculations are tough for an elementary schooler. After that, it's not difficult. These errors don't take away from the book's message, but they do cause one to wonder whether the author had a copy editor. Other errors are factually wrong. For instance, founders are described as a rare species, of which each company can only have one. Conveniently, that's not true of.... Uber itself, which was notably co-founded by Kalanick and Garrett Camp, as well as its main rival Lyft (Logan Green and John Zimmer). But it's not even true of old tech giants-- Mark Zuckerberg was certainly the lone face of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter... but Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Google by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. How that got past a copy edit is beyond me. Others are less obvious but equally off the mark. Cooley and Paul Weiss, for instance, are presented as powerful Silicon Valley law firms. Cooley certainly fits the bill. But Paul Weiss, while a very prominent New York law firm, not only doesn't have a strong Silicon Valley presence; it is one of a relative few New York powerhouse firms that don't have an office in the Bay Area at all. Such errors, together, lead me to question some of the factual reliability of the other claims made in the book. So while I enjoyed the book itself, I'm not certain how much of it to believe. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #685,692 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #43 in Company Business Profiles (Books) #51 in Venture Capital (Books) #124 in Workplace Culture (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (2,620) | | Dimensions | 6.5 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches | | Edition | 1st | | ISBN-10 | 0393652246 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0393652246 | | Item Weight | 1.4 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 408 pages | | Publication date | September 3, 2019 | | Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company | ## Images ![Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71oA9UbZwkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A truly gripping account of the rise and fall of a tech titan *by W***N on October 21, 2025* Mike Isaac's Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber is an absolute page-turner. The author masterfully kept me completely hooked; it didn't feel like reading a business book, but rather an intense, real-life action movie. A thrilling and highly recommended deep dive into the Uber saga. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good story, some head-scratching errors *by A***6 on September 17, 2019* Super Pumped tells the story of Uber, from its inception as a black car-hailing startup to one of the biggest private companies of all time. The story as it's told is quite compelling-- it cobbles together interviews with VCs, current and former employees, allies as well as adversaries of Travis Kalanick's, as well as bystanders. It's quite clear which accounts the author finds compelling and which he's more apt to dismiss. In all, it does present a work of deep reporting that tells a fascinating story. My biggest gripe is that it's rife with odd factual and narrative errors. A lot of these things are easy to find via a cursory Google search. Others contradict themselves a few pages later. Just a few-- the author writes that a modem that downloads at 1.5MBPS is "thousands of times" faster than one that downloads at 28KBPS. Simple math tells you that that isn't the case. Similarly, the author declares Kalanick to be a savant because he could calculate the approximate time it takes to get somewhere given the average speed and distance remaining. Maybe those kind of calculations are tough for an elementary schooler. After that, it's not difficult. These errors don't take away from the book's message, but they do cause one to wonder whether the author had a copy editor. Other errors are factually wrong. For instance, founders are described as a rare species, of which each company can only have one. Conveniently, that's not true of.... Uber itself, which was notably co-founded by Kalanick and Garrett Camp, as well as its main rival Lyft (Logan Green and John Zimmer). But it's not even true of old tech giants-- Mark Zuckerberg was certainly the lone face of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter... but Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Google by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. How that got past a copy edit is beyond me. Others are less obvious but equally off the mark. Cooley and Paul Weiss, for instance, are presented as powerful Silicon Valley law firms. Cooley certainly fits the bill. But Paul Weiss, while a very prominent New York law firm, not only doesn't have a strong Silicon Valley presence; it is one of a relative few New York powerhouse firms that don't have an office in the Bay Area at all. Such errors, together, lead me to question some of the factual reliability of the other claims made in the book. So while I enjoyed the book itself, I'm not certain how much of it to believe. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cannot put it down *by A***E on September 5, 2019* Halfway through and yes, it's quite remarkable. It is like the author was hiding behind doorways in some conversations. So far, and admittedly I haven't seen all of it, I think it feels fair and even-handed, not over-sensational. The writing is also very good -- fast reading and I'm finding myself obsessed with this story. Hard not to compare it to Bad Blood, equally juicy. The difference is that we all saw this -- we were all riding Ubers and loving the convenience and celebrating the fact that is has transformed urban transportation. And we all knew someone who worked there and hated the culture -- but who wanted to stay to cash out. Will update more in a day or two, with more thoughts and details. UPDATE: <100 pages to go I am obsessed with this book and the story. I find it so amazing that such a large, transformative company was run just so poorly. I'm at the point where Bad Boy Travis is taking a break from the company -- and I do feel sorry for him, up to a point. I don't feel sorry for the enablers -- some whom I think Isaac let off pretty lightly. In fact, many of the characters he describes show up (at least up to this point) as quite admirable, such as the CTO Thuan Pham, among others. I cannot wait to talk about this book with friends and observers. I am less sanguine that it cannot happen again, and again and again, because the whole startup/crazy money chasing the next big thing/bro culture has no reason to change. UPDATE: finished the book and just raced through toward the end. I think everyone interested in startups/disruption and tech in general should read this book, for what it says about the whole cycle of money-funding-new-ideas. Was riveted by the ins and outs of Benchmark's actions and how one of the most founder-friendly firms in Silicon Valley, could push out a CEO who controls the shares and the board! Yes, I loved reading the book but am saddened the the problems will not go away because there's too much money sloshing around looking for the next big thing, with investors all FOMO about the next bro startup. Kalanick, who Mike Isaac described as having a philosophy of "Ayn Rand meets Wolf of Wall Street," is part of the system, not an outlier. Susan Fower's "very strange year" at Uber is happening again in firms all over, venture firms are ignoring women founders, and tools like AI propogate the same old ideas. Sigh. Still, it's great to dissect how this very visible company jumped the shark, and keep the conversation going about how Silicon Valley, innovators, and investors can do much, much better. OK, sermon over. 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