The Rise and Fall of Uber | Get Super Pumped About Meeting Mike Isaac | 5

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mike Isaac, the author of Super Pumped: the Battle for Uber, is more than a technology writer for the New York Times. He’s a character in the Uber story. Mike sits down with host Lindsay Graham to tell the behind the scenes story of how he broke some of Uber’s darkest secrets.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business movers, add free on Amazon music, download the app today.
0:21.0	It's 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20th, 2017 in the San Francisco International Airport.
0:28.0	New York Times Tech Journalist Mike Isaac sits at the Virgin American Terminal waiting.
0:33.0	He's about to board a plane to Los Angeles to conduct an on-stage interview at a tech conference.
0:38.0	As he waits for the gate agent to start the boarding process, Mike checks his phone.
0:43.0	It's one of his main sources at Uber, so Mike picks up.
0:46.0	Hey, man, I'm about to get on a plane. Can we talk later?
0:49.0	No, no, we need to talk now. Trust me. Where are you?
0:52.0	At the airport.
0:53.0	Where the hell are you going?
0:54.0	LA, tech conference.
0:55.0	Blow it off.
0:56.0	What's going on?
0:58.0	You remember our conversation this past weekend?
1:01.0	The source called Mike over the weekend and gave him a tip.
1:04.0	Travis Kalanick is about to be fired.
1:07.0	Mike gets tips all the time, and most of them don't amount much.
1:10.0	But this particular fact has the ring of authenticity.
1:13.0	For months, Uber had been at the center of a long list of scandals,
1:17.0	many personally involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
1:20.0	Many employees at Uber have openly called for Travis' resignation,
1:24.0	and Travis' position wasn't improved by the damning holder report
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