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Super Pumped

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, Mike Isaac of the New York Times joins to talk about his new bookSuper Pumped which tells the dramatic story of Uber’s rise and fall. He and the hosts also get into the whole WeWork IPO debacle and the strike at GM. Plus: The Repo Market. This episode is brought to you by LightStream. Get an additional interest rate discount at lightstream.com/money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the super pumped edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

0:19.2

news of the week. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I am here with Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

0:25.0

Hello.

0:26.0

I am here with our other co-host Anna Shimanski who amazingly

0:31.0

amazingly has affiliation now.

0:34.8

You are no longer the mysterious.

0:36.5

I have shifted now officially to financial journalism.

0:43.8

So why would anyone voluntarily become a

0:46.4

It's a very good question.

0:47.7

Yeah, most people don't finish their CFA and then

0:49.6

and they'd be like, I'm gonna go into journalism.

0:52.2

But welcome to the tribe.

0:54.0

So yeah, so I'm going to be working with Reuters breaking views.

0:57.0

All right.

0:58.0

Your Honor.

0:59.0

So now we have four journalists around the table because we also have Mr Mike Isaac of the New York Times.

1:05.0

Hello, hello.

1:06.0

Welcome.

1:07.0

You are here because you are on Book Door.

1:09.0

You've written an amazing new book called...

1:11.0

This is called Super Pumped, The Battle for Uber. It's great. It's in all good bookstores. It's a fun read. And so yeah, we're going to talk to Mike about his book and about Uber and about Travis Kalanic and then about the new book. about Earth is going on with all of the we work crazy we are going to be talking about the

1:34.5

power that workers are beginning to show over companies like GM and maybe even

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