The Early Podcast
The Early Podcast
Podcast Description
Exploring life as a journey, not a destination. Understanding more about people's paths and exploring specific areas of interest.
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The podcast explores themes of startup dynamics, personal journeys, and business strategy, including episodes that cover topics like Uber's expansion in China, employee perspectives on leadership, and lessons learned from competition in high-stakes markets.
Welcome to The EARLY Podcast where we go beyond the founder story. EARLY POD dives into the minds of early employees at iconic startups — the builders, hustlers & OPERATORS who were there BEFORE the world was watching.
Hosted by Max Crowley (Uber’s employee #25), each episode unpacks the wild ride of growing companies from scrappy to scale — and the lessons learned along the way.
Starting with Uber, EARLY POD, will explore other iconic startups like Twitter, WeWork, Coinbase, Airbnb, Youtube, Google, Facebook and many more!!
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 tells all.
As a founding team member and co-creator of WeWork Labs, Jesse helped build WeWork from a Craigslist ad to a global phenomenon. In this episode, he breaks down how it all happened — and where it all went off the rails.
We cover:
● The real story of WeWork’s earliest days
● Why WeLive felt wrong from the start
● How Adam Neumann inspired obsession (and burnout)
● What Summer Camp was actually like
● How Jesse uses those lessons now as a venture capitalist
This is one of the most honest, in-the-room breakdowns of WeWork ever recorded.
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