Super Pumped

Previously,on "Super Pumped"...

Young founders are a hot commodity.

You must basically have women on demand now too.

Yeah, we call that Boober.

Olivia Lungociu just published

our entire list of data access permissions.

Everyone will know that we access

users' messages, cameras, contacts, GPS,

even after the app's been closed.

Olivia Lungociu.

Open her up quick and quiet.

She needs to be fucking neutralized.

I'm going to stay in the city tonight.

Can't you come home?

I've gotta get an early start.

The money is worthless if I never see you.

Quality time in the dark isn't so great

when I can't pay the electricity bill.

Thanks for all you do, brother.

Is Google starting a self-driving

ride-hailing service?

Anything is possible.

That's Levandowski. I want to poach him.

I just sent Google my resignation letter.

Why don't you meet our newest board member.

I am thrilled by Uber's potential

to make the world a better place.

Apple just rejected the update.

Your build breaks dozens of App Store rules.

It's an abomination.

Change it.

Anyone looking at Uber's app

from Cupertino

won't be able to see the privacy-violating code.

Do it.

Tim, you're not gonna believe

the shit Uber's trying to pull.

Opening theme music plays

- Hey. - Oh, Jesus.

Hi.

Did they ever play any happy songs back in the day,

or are they all just like funeral dirges?

Okay, they had a lot of people dying on them back then.

- Young too. - But they also played, like,

imperial shit, right, like for kings?

Can you play me something like that?

Guess someone had a good day at work.

I did. I had a great fucking day.

Good. Why don't you go shower

that Johnnie Walker and patchouli off of you...

- And then we can... - No time, babe.

Too busy changing the world. One driver less car at a time.

That's amazing, Trav. Hey, I have some good news too.

Really? So we're going to celebrate you too.

But do you know where the Wii remote is?

'Cause I can feel it right now. I am en fuego.

It's in the cabinet under the TV.

Oh, yeah.

Anyway, so, you... You know that school

that I've been working with?

They...

Yeah. Eddy Cue!

I was legit just talking about you, man.

What's going on?

We have a real problem.

You do, I mean. Uber does. An existential crisis.

Define "existential."

Tim's sitting in to decide if you exist.

Cupertino, tomorrow.

They can't know.

They obviously know

we're still running the rejected code,

or else the call I got would've been inviting me to their camp

at the Bohemian Club,

not to reenact The Lives of Others

with Tim Cook asking the questions.

Is this it, man? Is Apple banning us?

Oh, they're just trying to scare us, or scare me.

It could be seen like we're deceiving

the most powerful tech company in the world, TK...

And we have no idea how much Apple actually knows.

Their find could expose heaven, hell, Grey ball.

Our whole surveillance operation.

- We don't call it that. - Okay,

none of those things are actually illegal.

Apple's precious App Store rules are not the fucking law.

Most users are dubious of the data we mine

from their phones already.

Discovering blatant privacy infringement

could drive users off the app and the company.

We have to make this right with Apple.

Thank you, Mr. Spock. Now what do I do?

What's my angle? How do I actually get out of this?

You don't.

Leave the bullshit on the farm.

Go to Cupertino.

Confirm only what they know.

Nothing more, nothing less. And then say you're sorry.

I'm not sorry.

And I don't want to let Tim wrestle me to the ground.

TK, you know when it comes to throwing gas on a fire,

I'm both the gas and the fire, right?

- Why I love you, bro. - But this time,

I got some water and a fire extinguisher

because big pic: Saying sorry costs nothing.

You're on track to become

the most significant commander

of the most significant start up

of the 21st century.

Legit legend status.

If we don't get flushed.

This could be that rare time

where the truth actually sets you free.

The concern is, if you don't give them what they want,

which is, as Emil said, the truth,

they will make an example of you and ban the app, ending Uber.

But know this:

If they don't like that truth, they may ban us anyway.

So I tell the truth, I lose,

but I lie, I also lose?

One of those will be the better option.

Choose that one,

or else Cupertino will become your Waterloo.

Well, I hear you. I regard you.

But this is nothing like Waterloo, okay?

Napoleon was a great general. I'm not knocking the little man.

But he was not making France the kind of coin

that I am making for Apple,

which is why Apple will never remove Uber from the app store.

I think we have to remove Uber from the App Store.

In all my years at Apple,

I've never seen such a blatant disregard for Apple policy.

Your juvenile, contemptuous game of hide-and-seek

with our compliance engineers is an insult.

If insults determined our actions,

we'd be tossing apps to the lions like the emperors.

This isn't personal to me, but it is clear, Travis.

Your actions, and those of your company,

have led us to one conclusion:

Uber must go.

Anything you'd like to say?

Before you do, know this:

Lying, that I do take personally.

Oh, look at that.

Our main motherfucker would love to find a lie

that he could float.

Uber deserves to be removed from the App Store.

Uber...

No, I deceived you.

It was blatant and egregious.

But I was desperate.

Well, this tribunal can close up fast.

No, I'm saying that there's a reason I did what I did.

Before you end it all for Uber...

just hear me out.

I think you owe me that.

We owe you nothing.

That may well be true, Eduardo,

but Travis is here, and so are we.

Let's let the man talk.

Thank you, Tim.

Oh, no.

He's right, Travis.

I mean, we should shut you down

faster than the Secretariat did

the field at Churchill Downs.

They say that race was over in the first furlong.

Yeah, well, I run motherfuckers down in the final stretch, Eddy.

Hey, try and rise above the day-to-day, uh, chestiness.

Hey, and just tell us why on earth you thought it was okay

to blatantly violate our agreement.

I'm here today because of China.

Oh, God...

From humble beginnings in San Francisco...

...Uber took over the world in record time.

Uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it

That's the way, Uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it

But there was still one land left

to be annexed into Uber Nation.

The People's Republic of China.

A land of 1.4 billion people,

97% of whom own a smart phone.

If we could take China,

we would be the most consequential tech start up

since Apple.

But we had competition.

There were already two big Chinese ride share companies:

Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache.

They were at war.

That was my opening to conquer China.

And we were winning.

Take Chengdu.

Half the size of New York City,

but 479 times as many rides in less than nine months.

But, and I've never told anybody this,

not even my board.

Half of those rides were fake.

Each centipede represents, at minimum,

50 fraudulent incentive rides.

And there are hundreds more in every city all over the country,