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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- De: Mike Isaac
- Narrado por: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,963
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,639
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,633
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and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 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A forced narrative and a bad version of Bad Blood
- De Benji en 09-09-19
- Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- De: Mike Isaac
- Narrado por: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
50% Biographical, 50% Opinion Piece
Revisado: 11-30-20
I was expecting this would be a biographical book chronically the rise and fall of Uber and its founder, Travis Kalanick... which it half is. The other half is an opinion piece from the author, hammering his own generic progressive worldviews into your skull for 13 hours straight, along with a bunch of self-congratulatory praise for himself, other journalists and... Twitter trolls.
Ad nauseum, the author calls Travis Kalanick "a douchebag", and rambles about Uber's "sexist" workplace and "bro" culture, repeatedly trying to shoe-horn facts into a narrative of the author's own creation. To see what I mean, just watch the hidden-camera footage of Travis arguing with an Uber driver, or read Susan Fowler's blog post griping about her former employer yourself. Neither of them are nearly as awful as the author tries to over-dramatize them to sound.
More broadly, the author criticizes entrepreneurships and silicon valley in general, repeatedly claiming that the entire tech industry is sexist. (Reality check: it's not. Women are just disproportionately disinterested in consumer tech / engineering jobs.)
In fact, the author is not interested in writing about Uber; he's only interested in writing about Uber-controversies. For example, Uber Eats, a major part of the company, is barely reference in the entire book. Meanwhile Uber's self-driving program is only discussed insofar as it's related to a lawsuit with Waymo.
Instead the author decided to fill 31 chapters with more important things, such as... an Uber dinner-party he was at (chapter 13), venting about the Trump administration (chapter 20), and biographing the life of a Twitter troll (chapter 21) (--and yes, Twitter trolls really are the depressed, world-hating basement dwellers you'd stereotype them to be). In general, the author tries to make Twitter trolls and journalists sound far more relevant to this story and the world than they really are. For example, whenever he writes "the media wants blood...", I just roll my eyes and think... who cares what the media wants?
In chapter 22 - 31, the author misses the actual narrative entirely:
Author's Narrative: Uber's years of secret misconduct finally catch up to them, as the brave journalist heroes expose all the evil Uber executives, resulting in the dismissal of... well, literally everyone.
Reality: some insider-board members decide to take control of the company. To do that, they leak tons of internal-company dirt to the media, and then use the good-old cancel-culture principle of "oh are you involved in a public controversy? Oh whooooops guess we gotta fire you now haha lol".
As far as lessons that other founders should learn from the tale of Uber, I would say that Travis' Kalanick's biggest failures were:
1. having underpaid, unhappy drivers. This created a strong base of discontent from which all the other negative publicity stemmed. (Although the author seems largely oblivious to this.)
2. not keeping his board and shareholders happy and properly informed.
3. not setting up more rigorous corporate governance.
4. Travis repeatedly fired his close friends and executives when pressured to do so. Never give in to the demands of terrorists. Never try to appease bullies.
Overall, the book stuck to a dramatic story-format, rather than a textbook abstract-format, which made the book a lot more engaging and interesting to read. Although this book is far from unbiased or biographical, it's the best you're going to get if you want to learn about the origin story of Uber.
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Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want
- De: Étienne Garbugli
- Narrado por: Etienne Garbugli
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators use Lean B2B to quickly find traction in the market. Packed with more than 20 case studies, Lean B2B consolidates the best thinking around Business-to-Business (B2B) customer development to help entrepreneurs focus on the right actions each step of the way, leaving as little as possible to luck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I tried lean before and failed
- De Neil Bee en 12-03-20
- Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want
- De: Étienne Garbugli
- Narrado por: Etienne Garbugli
The Lean B2B Roadmap
Revisado: 10-30-20
In terms of content, this is by far one of the best startup / entrepreneurship books out there. You can tell it’s written by someone with deep startup experience and a personal story to tell, not just another startup consultant trying to sell you his services.
As for the audio performance, I normally love authors reading their own works; they always imbue it with a life absent most professional narrators. However in this instance, that was a mistake; the author’s thick accent makes it very difficult to comprehend most of the time.
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Agile Project Management
- The New Step by Step Guide to Learn the Kanban Process, Scrum and Lean Thinking
- De: Homer Herring
- Narrado por: Nicholas Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 43
This audiobook will explain everything about Agile project management, starting from how to comprehend what it is, what it does, how it works, how it may be useful to you, how to begin utilizing it, what are the ramifications of the selection, and significantly more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of Money
- De Anonymous User en 02-14-20
- Agile Project Management
- The New Step by Step Guide to Learn the Kanban Process, Scrum and Lean Thinking
- De: Homer Herring
- Narrado por: Nicholas Smith
Great Example of How Not To Write a Book
Revisado: 08-05-20
This book contains no concrete real-world stories, examples, or context to explain anything that this book is attempting to communicate to its reader.
The book is written entirely in a "(1) (2) (3) list of bullet points" style. Any agile-newbie reading this book (if they somehow manage to stay engaged for 4 hours) will struggle to understand its content, and, at best, retain a shallow surface-level understanding of what Agile is about.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
- De: Dale Carnegie
- Narrado por: Andrew MacMillan
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100,376
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80,246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79,659
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is well worth listening too! Main points are.
- De Ralph en 10-21-11
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- De: Dale Carnegie
- Narrado por: Andrew MacMillan
The Book I Thought I Was Too Good For
Revisado: 05-13-20
Since this book has been around since 1936, I thought everything in it would be common sense by now; I was expecting a bunch of abstract bullet points repeating the same lessons I'd already heard a hundreds times from other sources.
I was wrong.
Rarely does a book age so well after 84 years. All of the stories and examples are amusingly antiquated, but the underlying principles of human-interaction contained herein have remained remarkably constant from Lincoln's Civil-War era to today's Snapchat era. Ironically, the people of today view themselves as so educated and enlightened and morally superior to their grandparent's generation, but they're quite mistaken; in a lot of ways, our internet-culture society of today has moved in the exact opposite direction from the principles of respect and civility taught in this book.
In short: there's a lot everyone can learn from this book. Please read it. It'll help make you a better person. Thanks.
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Great by Choice
- De: Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
- Narrado por: Jim Collins
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,715
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,704
The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. The new study: Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an unendurable narration
- De Mary en 11-26-11
- Great by Choice
- De: Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
- Narrado por: Jim Collins
Great book, great narrator
Revisado: 12-20-18
To all the people who are writing negative reviews about this book because they didn’t like the narrator: Jim is a great narrator, I love listening to him, and this is how he narrates all the books he writes. You guys have no idea what you’re talking about.
This is a great sequel to ‘Good to Great’. The main summary of this book is that great business leaders exhibit 3 traits: productive paranoia, creative empiricism, and fanatic discipline to a SMaC recipe (basically the same thing as a ‘hedgehog concept’). In some ways, these are just rephrasings of the concepts already covered in ‘Good to Great’, with productive paranoia being the biggest addition.
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Accelerated Learning: The Most Effective Techniques: How to Learn Fast, Improve Memory, Save Your Time, and Be Successful
- Positive Psychology Coaching Series, Book 14
- De: Ian Tuhovsky
- Narrado por: Randy Streu
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Unleash the awesome power of your brain to achieve your true potential, learn anything, and enjoy greater success than you ever thought possible. Packed with proven methods that help you significantly improve your memory and develop simple-yet-powerful learning methods, Accelerated Learning: The Most Effective Techniques is the only brain training manual you'll ever need to master new skills, become an expert in any subject, and achieve your goals, whatever they may be. Everything you'll learn in this book can be implemented immediately regardless of your academic background, age, or circumstances, so no matter who you are, you can start changing your life for the better right now.
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2 out of 5 stars
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nothing new
- De Ken en 01-11-18
- Accelerated Learning: The Most Effective Techniques: How to Learn Fast, Improve Memory, Save Your Time, and Be Successful
- Positive Psychology Coaching Series, Book 14
- De: Ian Tuhovsky
- Narrado por: Randy Streu
Thanks
Revisado: 09-21-18
This guy is on point. Worth the listen. Mainstream education should take note of this stuff
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