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TechCheck+ "Super Pumped" Showrunner Beth Schacter 3/25/22

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CNBC

Disruptors, Investing, Faang, Technology, Business, Management, Cnbc, Tech

4.856 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla chats with Beth Schacter – Showrunner and one of the Executive Producers of “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” – on his digital series “Binge” for an in-depth conversation about what drew her to the script, how she and the writers approached telling Uber’s story, the star-studded cast of Joseph Gordon Levitt, Uma Thurman, and Kyle Chandler, and what the creators want audiences to walk away with.

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Our thanks to Beth Shactor, co-showrunner, EP, executive producer of SuperPumpt The Battle for

0:06.4

Uber and Billions.

0:08.2

Both airs Sunday nights on Showtime.

0:10.6

We appreciate your time so much.

0:11.8

It's great to have you.

0:13.0

Thank you. I'm glad to be here.

0:15.0

Obviously, I mean, it's right up the C's alley because we covered Uber's building from the start.

0:22.0

We knew Travis pretty well. He came down here. I still remember

0:25.8

I P. O day like it was yesterday. What drew you guys to the story? I love this line that you gave when you were speaking to the

0:34.8

Washington Post about how it's an example of

0:36.7

revolutionary who eventually became the fascists. Yeah, I mean it's really

0:41.6

fascinating. So it starts with Mike Isaac's book,

0:45.2

Mike Isaac, New York Times, tech reporter,

0:46.8

I'm sure you guys have crossed paths.

0:49.2

Mike was this extraordinary book about Travis and and sort of the culture that he came from and the culture that was created and what happened.

1:00.0

And in that, in writing it, obviously, you go through all the steps and you have a galley, and he sort of knew Brian Coupleman from Twitter.

1:09.1

So he diemned Brian on Twitter, I think on like a Thursday, send him the manuscript on a Friday.

1:16.0

Brian shared it with David, his writing partner

1:18.0

who he's known for their entire life since they were 15

1:21.0

on that Friday.

1:22.9

I believe they tried to get,

1:25.3

like they basically were in by the end of the weekend

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