Mike Issac covers Silicon Valley for The New York Times. He is the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.

“People try to use journalists all the time. Your job as a journalist is to figure out who’s using you, why they’re using you, and whether you can do something legitimately without playing into one side or another.”

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Isaac on Longform

[00:14] Wolverine Podcast

[02:09] Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (W. W. Norton & Company • 2019)

[02:20] Issac’s New York Times archive

[03:57] Issac’s Paste Magazine archive

[06:15] Longform Podcast #337: Casey Newton

[08:40] Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg

[25:38] “How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide” (New York Times • 2017)

[25:44] “Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture” (New York Times • 2017)

[25:48] Susan Fowler blog post

[31:00] Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou • Knopf • 2018)

[36:31] Isaac on The Daily

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