The Early Podcast

<p>Allen Penn grew up on a Kentucky horse farm, learning grit and hard work from a young age. He went from private equity to becoming one of Uber’s earliest operators, spearheading the launch of Uber Taxi in Chicago and...

<p>What do Olive Garden breadsticks, Napster, and Uber all have in common? 👉 Jesse Lucas.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Mini (Best Of) episode, Jesse shares his unlikely journey:</p><p>-Growing up working-class on Cape...

<p>🎯 Mini (Best Of) Episode that's under 30 minutes. In time for summer travel... we're curating some of our most popular episodes, now condensed into a fast, no-filler cut.</p><p><br></p><p>What does it really take to...

<p>🎯 Mini (Best Of) Episode that's under 30 minutes. In time for summer travel... we're curating some of our most popular episodes, now condensed into a fast, no-filler cut.</p><p><br></p><p>Sam Gellman helped launch...

<p>What’s it like to be the first employment lawyer at one of the most legally complex startups in tech history?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I sit down with Abby Horrigan, who joined Uber in its wild early days to...

<p>What does it take to scale one of the world’s largest professional services firms — and still lead with heart?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we sit down with Jill Smart, former CHRO and one of the original...

<p>What do you do after building one of the most iconic companies of our generation?</p><p><br></p><p>If you’re Ryan McKillen, one of Uber's EARLY employees, you buy the U.S. SailGP Team and dive headfirst into the...

<p>In this episode of The Early Podcast, I sit down with legendary early-stage investor Shervin Pishevar — the man who bet on Uber in October 2011, when it had only 30 people, and helped launch it around the...

<p>This week's guest: Nick Mathews, an early Marketing Manager and launcher of Uber in Boston. </p><p><br></p><p>What does it take to build a global giant, one city at a time? Nick was on the ground fighting taxi...

<p>🚗 Inside the Rideshare Wars: The Untold Story of Lyft vs. Uber 🚗</p><p><br></p><p>What really happened when two of the scrappiest startups of our generation collided on the streets, fighting for drivers, riders...

<p>Before Uber was a global juggernaut, it was local, it was gritty, and it was hard. </p><p><br></p><p>This week we interviewed Scott Gorlick, who joined Uber in 2012. He cold-emailed Travis to get the job, and helped...

<p>Before the tens of billions raised, the almost $50B!! valuation... the Summer Camps... the flameout....& the Hulu doc… there was one scrappy floor in SoHo, New York — and Jesse Middleton was there at a desk. Now he...

<p>Marshall Osborne was a college kid from Indiana who landed in San Francisco with no job, no apartment, and no promise of a role—just hustle. </p><p>Within weeks, he talked his way into an internship at Uber...

<p>Frederique helped build the tools that made Uber scale, before there were dashboards, systems, or even GPS driving directions in the app.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of The Early Podcast, Max sits down with...

<p>What do you do when you're handed a $0 marketing budget… and you're launching a credit-card-based app in a country where only 2% of people have credit cards?</p><p>Oh — and no one trusts your...