Uber And Out

Author : Andrew Dertien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1728923689

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Uber Dick by Andrew Dertien Pdf

Nick Freeman is down on his luck. Recently divorced, he drives for Uber and sleeps in a homeless shelter in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, while his ex-wife remains with their two young children in her Victorian house in Lower Pacific Heights. A native of Texas, Freeman reminisces on the days when "life was 'laaf' and time was 'taam'." As a youth, he gave up sports for drugs and soon became a heroin addict. When we meet Nick in Uber Dick, he's clean, but often has to fight the urge to use when faced with dire circumstances. His love for his children keeps him going and drives his pursuit toward building a secure home space to share with them. Dertien's experimental and jagged narrative parallels Freeman's existential, random thought-process and provides the reader with a raw, honest view into the dark comedy surrounding the protagonist; Nick Freeman knows himself well enough to throw a few jabs at himself for some laugh-out-loud gallows humor. A portrait of a single father struggling below the poverty line in the most exorbitantly expensive city in America, Dertien also reflects the contemporary zeitgeist of a once very cool city that, having been invaded by the tech industry, now mirrors the hypocrisy of social injustice, economic disparity and political absurdity that shatters artistic communities and the individual spirit in our country today.

Author : Adam Lashinsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735211407

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Wild Ride by Adam Lashinsky Pdf

In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO. Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. And even after taking Uber from the germ of an idea to a $69 billion global transportation behemoth, he still describes his company as a start-up. Like other Silicon Valley icons such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s always focused on the next disruptive innovation and the next world to conquer. Both Uber and Kalanick have acquired a reputation for being combative, relentless, and iron-fisted against competitors. They’ve inspired both admiration and loathing as they’ve flouted government regulators, thrown the taxi industry into a tailspin, and stirred controversy over possible exploitation of drivers. They’ve even reshaped the deeply ingrained consumer behavior of not accepting a ride from a stranger—against the childhood warnings from everyone’s parents. Wild Ride is the first truly inside look at Uber’s global empire. Veteran journalist Adam Lashinsky, the bestselling author of Inside Apple, traces the origins of Kalanick’s massive ambitions in his humble roots, and he explores Uber’s murky beginnings and the wild ride of its rapid growth and expansion into different industries. Lashinsky draws on exclusive, in-depth interviews with Kalanick and many other sources who share new details about Uber’s internal and external power struggles. He also examines its doomed venture into China and the furtive fight between Kalanick and his competitors at Google, Tesla, Lyft, and GM over self-driving cars. Lashinsky even got behind the wheel as an Uber driver himself to learn what it’s really like. Uber has made headlines thanks to its eye-popping valuations and swift expansion around the world. But this book is the first account of how Uber really became the giant it is today, and how it plans to conquer the future.

Author : Jared Meyer
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594039010

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Uber-Positive by Jared Meyer Pdf

Entire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living--even in today's slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy. Even in the face of these benefits, innovation is in danger of being suppressed because of overzealous government regulation that protects existing businesses--all behind the façade of consumer safety. This book chronicles Uber's battle against the New York City taxi industry and its supporters in the government. It also shows the need to stand up for entrepreneurs and the vast benefits that they provide for consumers. As innovators tirelessly work to drive the economy forward, too often regulators function as annoying backseat drivers or roadblocks.

Author : Karl Gertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1098024664

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Uber God by Karl Gertz Pdf

Author : Alex Rosenblat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520970632

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Uberland by Alex Rosenblat Pdf

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber’s outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat’s firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.

Author : Walter Dinteman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692145680

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Uber and Out by Walter Dinteman Pdf

Uber & Out is a compilation of stories gathered from experience driving for Uber mainly in North Carolina, but also containing information of general interest regarding ride-sharing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Driving of horse-drawn vehicles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009557617

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The Rider and Driver by Anonim Pdf

Author : Juan Manuel del Nido
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503629684

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Taxis vs. Uber by Juan Manuel del Nido Pdf

Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina's president himself. Economist and anthropologist Juan M. del Nido, who had arrived in the city six months earlier to research the taxi industry, suddenly found himself documenting the unprecedented upheaval in real time. Taxis vs. Uber examines the ensuing conflict from the perspective of the city's globalist, culturally liberal middle class, showing how notions like monopoly, efficiency, innovation, competition, and freedom fueled claims that were often exaggerated, inconsistent, unverifiable, or plainly false, but that shaped the experience of the conflict such that taxi drivers' stakes in it were no longer merely disputed but progressively written off, pathologized, and explained away. This first book-length study of the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the arrival of a major platform economy to a metropolitan capital considers how the clash between Uber and the traditional taxi industry played out in courtrooms, in the press, and on the street. Looking to court cases, the politics of taxi licenses, social media campaigns, telecommunications infrastructure, public protests, and Uber's own promotional materials, del Nido examines the emergence of "post-political reasoning": an increasingly common way in which societies neutralize disagreement, shaping how we understand what we can even legitimately argue about and how.

Author : Mike Isaac
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393652253

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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac Pdf

Now a SHOWTIME® original series starring Emmy winners Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. Now streaming – Only on SHOWTIME. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday Times A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice “If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times best-selling author of Bad Blood Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong.

Author : Danny B
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520680341

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The Life of an Uber Driver by Danny B Pdf

The Life Of An Uber Driver is a ride (book) you won't want to miss. This book is an all access, all inclusive shared experience into an array of personalities and walks of life that enter an Uber ride. From your Grandpa to the boardroom executive, to the drunk late Friday night texts, to the sappy love stories, to the strippers and everything in between, you'll never guess what's coming next. The Author is just like you, living and breathing on this great planet we call Earth. The hope of the Author is that you read The Life Of An Uber Driver without knowing any further information about them. Instead, without any pre-conceived notions of them or the passengers, that you get to know everyone intimately. You might even find yourself amongst the pages. Riveting| Raw| Revealing

Author : Susan Fowler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525560142

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Whistleblower by Susan Fowler Pdf

“A powerful illustration of the obstacles our society continues to throw up in the paths of ambitious young women.” —The New York Times Book Review “Important . . . empowering.” —Gayle King, CBS This Morning "That [Fowler] became a whistle-blower and a pioneer of a social movement almost seems inevitable once you get to know her. Uber should have seen her coming.” —San Francisco Chronicle Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR Susan Fowler was just twenty-five years old when her blog post describing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced at Uber riveted the nation. Her post would eventually lead to the ousting of Uber's powerful CEO, but its ripples extended far beyond that, as her courageous choice to attach her name to the post inspired other women to speak publicly about their experiences. In the year that followed, an unprecedented number of women came forward, and Fowler was recognized by Time as one of the "Silence Breakers" who ignited the #MeToo movement. Here, she shares her full story: a story of extraordinary determination and resilience that reveals what it takes--and what it means--to be a whistleblower. Long before she arrived at Uber, Fowler's life had been defined by her refusal to accept her circumstances. She propelled herself from an impoverished childhood with little formal education to the Ivy League, and then to a coveted position at one of the most valuable companies in the history of Silicon Valley. Each time she was mistreated, she fought back or found a way to reinvent herself; all she wanted was the opportunity to define her own dreams and work to achieve them. But when she discovered Uber's pervasive culture of sexism, racism, harassment, and abuse, and that the company would do nothing about it, she knew she had to speak out—no matter what it cost her. Whistleblower takes us deep inside this shockingly toxic workplace and reveals new details about the aftermath of the blog post, in which Fowler was investigated and followed, hacked and threatened, to the point that she feared for her life. But even as it illuminates how the deck is stacked in favor of the status quo, Fowler's story serves as a crucial reminder that we can take our power back. Both moving personal narrative and rallying cry, Whistleblower urges us to be the heroes of our own stories, and to keep fighting for a more just and equitable world.

Author : Walter Anthony Dinteman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1708212094

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Uber & Out 2 by Walter Anthony Dinteman Pdf

More outlandish, extraordinary, and informative stories and articles about ridesharing. The author now has five years of experience and over 16,000 trips driving for Uber and Lyft.

Author : Brad Stone
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316388382

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The Upstarts by Brad Stone Pdf

ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process. The Upstarts is the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we discover how it all happened and what it took to change the world.

Author : Harry Campbell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781510735323

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The Rideshare Guide by Harry Campbell Pdf

An industry leader's guide to making Lyft and Uber work for you. In less than five years, ridesharing has grown from nonexistence into a billion dollar industry. Uber now has two million drivers in the United States, Lyft has seven hundred thousand, and both show no signs of slowing down. Despite the large number of drivers, Uber and Lyft provide little in the way of help for new drivers, who complain that there is a lack of guidance when starting out. Harry Campbell, founder and director of The Rideshare Guy blog and podcast and a driver himself, can help. The Rideshare Guide offers a comprehensive and engaging handbook for current and prospective rideshare drivers. Learn how to: Decide between Uber and Lyft Maximize passengers and profits Maintain a five-star rating Keep safe and interact appropriately with passengers Navigate legal matters and tax codes Campbell explains these and much more, also including funny, shocking, and bizarre tales from the road. Whether you are thinking about becoming a driver or a veteran wondering about UberPool and tax help, The Rideshare Guide by the Rideshare Guy has the answers.

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980475792

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Uber After Midnight by Robert Wilson Pdf

Have you ever thought about what its like to be a Uber driver? After being a driver for almost three years, here are the stories from the road, told by a Uber driver in Cincinnati, Ohio. Follow along as the author takes you with him on some of his most memorable Uber rides. At times funny, intense, and interesting, you will get a driver's perspective on what its like to be a driver for the biggest ridesharing company in the world, Uber.