Super Pumped¶
Isaac. (2020). Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. National Geographic Books.
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- The service's rapid success rode as much on the readiness of that environment as on execution, and firms then engaged in deliberate substrate-shaping — lobbying regulators, subsidizing early riders and drivers — to widen and hold the window open
This sourceIsaac's account of Uber acting on its own regulatory environment - Greyball, and an explicit rationale for working around rules it judged unjust - together with the heavy city-level cash burn used to force growth; the lobbying half of the claim is not what this account describes.
- The service's rapid success rode as much on the readiness of that environment as on execution, and firms then engaged in deliberate substrate-shaping — lobbying regulators, subsidizing early riders and drivers — to widen and hold the window open
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