Mike Isaac, every mention

Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired Feb 22, 2022 · 18 mentions

• ▶ 16:02 Brian Koppelman And so to us, Uber, yeah, there are many Silicon Valley stories, but to us, the Uber story in the way that Mike takes you into it,
• ▶ 18:37 Ben Gilbert So, knowing Bill personally, but working from source material in Mike's book, as a producer, showrunner, writer, how do you weigh working both from source material, but also when you have your own, you know, primary source information from…
• ▶ 19:09 Brian Koppelman I said to Bill, Mike Isaac sent me his book.
• ▶ 19:22 Brian Koppelman We're starting from Mike's book.
• ▶ 19:47 Ben Gilbert Do you also interface with Mike or does Mike sort of work through, you know, David and Brian and how does that work?
• ▶ 19:55 Joseph Gordon-Levitt I had a couple of conversations with Mike, but no, mostly I just read his book and beyond that, I wanted to talk to a bunch of people that worked closely with Travis, uh, because I wanted to know not just what happened, but
• ▶ 21:13 Joseph Gordon-Levitt And that was really fascinating because that's not always evident when you read articles about him or even when you read Mike's book.
• ▶ 32:07 Brian Koppelman It's in Mike's book.
• ▶ 32:08 Brian Koppelman That's in Mike's book.
• ▶ 37:44 David Rosenthal What was the process and timeline like from Mike writes the book, book comes out to then you and Showtime are working on the project.
• ▶ 37:57 Brian Koppelman Mike DM me on Twitter.
• ▶ 38:20 Brian Koppelman And he agrees, and then, and then we go to Mike and say, hey, we wanna do this thing.
• ▶ 38:27 Brian Koppelman And then the whole town wanted it, but Mike stayed true to us and our word, and
• ▶ 38:39 Brian Koppelman And Mike was in the writer's room every day.
• ▶ 38:42 Brian Koppelman Mike was in the writer's room with us every single day.
• ▶ 38:53 Brian Koppelman I would say if we did a hundred days in the room, Mike was there for 94 of the hundred days.
• ▶ 41:07 Brian Koppelman And also this story offers you things like, you know, when you read Mike's book, the thing that happened with Sergey Brin and Gabby and TK,
• ▶ 1:02:55 Brian Koppelman Mike Isaac, ask me first.