Uber’s rise to prominence may need been troublesome to imagine at the same time as fiction, had it not been documented at each flip by ever-more regarding studies of overreach. The quasi-legal taxi enterprise (that seemingly nonetheless misclassifies an unlimited variety of drivers) belied a poisonous boys membership office tradition the place nearly any avenue to get forward— together with actively deceiving cops — was the norm. We’re led to imagine a few of these issues have since modified.
Of all that may be stated of the corporate underneath its authentic CEO Travis Kalanick, it wasn’t brief on depravity. Incidentally, that is the kind of factor that tends to make for good TV.
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Based on the guide of the identical title by New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, Super Pumped places Joseph Gordon-Levitt within the footwear of Kalanick, chronicling the taxi-hailing app on its relentless trajectory, in the direction of (and I do not assume I’m spoiling something right here) it is widespread success, a vehement public backlash and Kalanick’s eventual departure. Kyle Chandler appears poised to play the foil as enterprise capitalist Bill Gurley, whereas the trailer additionally teases an uncommon look for Uma Thurman as Arianna Huffington.
The anthology sequence, which is about to cowl a distinct enterprise chief every season, is slated to premier this February twenty seventh. So far there is no indication of which firms might be featured after this dramatization of Uber, however there is definitely no scarcity of merciless, cutthroat CEOs on the planet.
