Uber, but for TV

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When Recode’s Peter Kafka advises you not to write your book, WRITE THAT BOOK. That’s the lesson Mike Isaac learned: His book “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” is now a Showtime series starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Not only that, Showtime announced that Mike’s next, yet-to-be-finished book about Facebook will be the basis of season 2. Peter talks to Mark about what it’s like to shift from the world of reporting to prestige TV drama. Featuring: Mike Isaac (@MikeIsaac), Author and Tech Reporter at The New York Times Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to RecodeMedia, Peter Kafka, that is me and today we're going to talk about
0:06.2	Facebook and Uber and making a TV show about both of those things in my pal Mike Isaac,
0:13.8	currently with the New York Times, has written a book called Super Pumped About Uber that
0:18.6	is now a limited series show time show, maybe by the folks who make billions, it's going
0:23.0	to be showing up on your television screens in a couple of days or two.
0:27.2	Talk to Mike about taking a book and making a TV show and how that almost never happens
0:32.2	and how it happened for him and how he has turned his second book which he has not written
0:37.3	into a TV show as well.
0:39.1	Pretty extraordinary.
0:40.1	We also talk about just sort of the state of Facebook slash meta itself which is I think
0:44.4	reeling is a is a fair word to describe what's happened to them in the last few weeks slash
0:49.2	months, maybe years and you're going to hear me talking to Mike Isaac right now.
0:54.7	I know a lot of people who have written books because journalists love to write books but
0:58.8	I don't know anyone who has turned their best selling book into a series on show time.
1:04.2	Actually, correct.
1:05.2	I do know one person that person is Mike Isaac.
1:07.1	I'm talking to him right now.
1:08.1	I'm like, hey, what's up?
1:10.6	Mike is my former colleague current friend.
1:13.3	Let's see if he remains my friend by the end of this podcast.
1:15.6	I predict that he will.
1:16.6	Anyway, congrats Mike.
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