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Inside the Hive

Was Uber's CEO a Sociopath?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Travis Kalanick did unspeakable things to grow his company. But is the rest of Silicon Valley any better? Mike Isaac, a tech reporter at The New York Times, joins Nick to discuss all the insider drama, boardroom knife-fighting, and other juicy details in his new book, “Super Pumped.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.5

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0:11.6

Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion

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podcast.

0:16.6

Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. I am convinced at this point that I could try out for the announcer job at the

0:27.8

W. W. W.F. where they welcome the wrestlers out, but I am not going to do it.

0:31.6

Welcome, just kidding.

0:33.1

All right, so I used to live in Silicon Valley

0:36.2

thereabouts a few miles north of there.

0:38.4

And I remember when I was covering these companies,

0:40.9

people used to say to me, is this person or that person this CEO or

0:45.0

that employee a sociopath this was the word that was used all the time is

0:48.4

Elizabeth Holmes a sociopath is Mark Zuckerberg a sociopath is jack

0:52.1

dorsy a sociopath, is a sociopath.

0:53.4

And you know, when you look at them in these individual moments,

0:56.7

you think like, well, maybe, maybe not.

0:59.0

But when you kind of look at the industry as a whole,

1:01.4

it seems like something isn't right up there like there's

1:03.6

something in the water or maybe we just need to kind of rethink what this term

1:08.8

sociopath means my guest today Mike Isaac who is a reporter for the New York Times, has written a book on someone who a lot of people ask is a sociopath. Yes, that's right, Travis Kalinik, who founded and started Uber.

1:23.0

And he is here to tell me all of the crazy shit

1:26.4

that happened at that company

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