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The Early Podcast#19 - The Dirty Work of Hypergrowth - Early Uber Employee Scott Gorlick | Early PodcastBefore Uber was a global juggernaut, it was local, it was gritty, and it was hard. This week we interviewed Scott Gorlick, who joined Uber in 2012. He cold-emailed Travis to get the job, and helped launch Uber Atlanta from a coworking space—until they got kicked out. Then it got worse: a gun pulled in the office, driver onboarding from his apartment, and scaling so fast they accidentally became one of Apple’s biggest iPhone buyers.This episode is a raw look at the dirty, unglamorous work that made Uber...2025-06-2449 min
The Early Podcast#18 - Vision, Chaos & The Cult of WeWork - Early WeWork Employee Jesse Middleton | The Early PodcastBefore 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 d...2025-06-171h 03
The Early Podcast#17 - College Dropout - Early Uber Employee Marshall Osborne | The Early PodcastMarshall 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. Within weeks, he talked his way into an internship at Uber, eventually dropping out of school and becoming the intern who took Beyoncé to Vegas and helped turn Uber into a cultural verb.What followed was a GREAT early employee journey that will inspire everyone who hears it. In this episode, Marshall breaks down how he:● Saved a major deal...2025-06-1056 min
The Early Podcast#16 - From Spreadsheets to Systems - Early Uber Employee Frederique Dame | The Early PodcastFrederique helped build the tools that made Uber scale, before there were dashboards, systems, or even GPS driving directions in the app.In this episode of The Early Podcast, Max sits down with Frederique Dame, an early product leader at Uber and now a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures). They dive deep into the early chaos, the culture that made Uber magic, and how Frederique architected the driver onboarding experience that powered the company’s global growth.From building backend systems to managing all-hands-on-deck workations, Frederique shares what it...2025-06-0452 min
The Early Podcast#15 - Making Lemonade Out of Thin Air - Early Uber INDIA Employee Akshay BD | The Early PodcastWhat 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?Oh — and no one trusts your company?If you're Akshay BD, you figure it out.Follow Akshay on X: https://x.com/akshaybdThis week, I’m joined by Akshay — one of Uber India’s earliest employees — who shares the chaos of launching Uber in a cash-based, low-tech, regulation-light market. A country that couldn’t be further from the original Uber...2025-05-2748 min
The Early Podcast#14 - A $1.8M Plan to Sabotage Uber - Early Uber Employee Eric Wimer | The Early PodcastWhat would you do if someone offered you $1.8 million to sabotage Uber?That’s exactly what happened to Eric Wimer, one of the early operators at Uber, who helped launch and scale the Philly and Vegas markets from scratch. In this episode of The Early Pod, Eric reveals the untold story of the bribe, the chaos of the early days, and the wild tactics Uber used to win — including creating a fake limo company to outsmart corrupt regulators.This is one of the most entertaining behind-the-scenes startup stories you’ll hea...2025-05-2055 min
The Early Podcast#13 - Failure Wasn’t an Option - My Mom, Jay Crowley | The Early PodcastMy most important guest on The Early Podcast: MY MOM :). In honor of Mother's Day... and happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!!Meet Jay Crowley — she left home at 17, got spotted by CBS Records without a college degree, lost nearly everything on a Quiznos franchise, then reinvented herself in her 40s and built a thriving real estate business from scratch.This episode is about resilience, reinvention, and refusing to quit—even when the odds are stacked against you.2025-05-1342 min
The Early Podcast#12 - Twitter Before Elon - Early Twitter Employee Ryan Sarver | The Early PodcastEarly Pod's first non-Uber interview — and it’s a good one! Introducing TWITTER's 30th employee: Ryan Sarver. Ryan joined Twitter as employee #30 and helped scale it from a chaotic startup to a global platform. He led the API and developer platform, lived through the explosive growth, and saw the company up close as it missed major moments like Instagram, DMs, and video.We get into:• What it was like working under Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams• The real story behind losing Instagram to Zuck• A vo...2025-05-061h 08
The Turning Pro Podcast#079: Max Crowley on Uber’s Wild Early Days, Selling Bandit, and Betting on Himself AgainMax Crowley, host of The Early Podcast, joins us to unpack his wild career journey - starting as employee #25 at Uber, launching a mobile-first coffee startup that was later acquired by GoPuff, and stepping into the high-stakes world of startup fundraising and operations at scale.In this episode, Max breaks down what it was like building Uber’s early operations from the ground up, why scrappy talent always wins, and how Bandit, his app-based coffee shop, pivoted and sold during the height of COVID. He shares what he learned in the trenches as Chief of Staff to Go...2025-05-011h 02
The Early Podcast#11 - The Physicist Who Invented SURGE PRICING – Early Uber Employee Kevin Novak | The Early PodcastWelcome to Episode 11! With this one… we’re diving into one of the most controversial features in Uber history: SURGE PRICING. Meet Kevin Novak — a physicist turned data scientist who was asked to solve the impossible: how do you get enough drivers on the road… exactly when you need them? After joining in 2011 as Uber employee # 21... and armed with no team and no time, Kevin built what became known as surge pricing — and then watched it nearly blow up the company on its very first night. From there, he helped shape the role of data sc...2025-04-291h 06
The Early Podcast#10 - Scary Nights in Detroit – Early Uber Employee Chan Park | The Early PodcastWith this episode... we’re going deep into the trenches — a little dog pee, thousands of drivers protesting in Asia, and a $30-a-night Airbnb in Detroit… plus all the shenanigans that came with it.Chan Park joined Uber in 2012 with a limited playbook for expansion and one goal: launch cities as FAST AS POSSIBLE. On day one, he was told, “Why aren’t you in Sacramento?”—and things only got wilder from there.He launched Uber in Detroit from the sketchiest Airbnb on Eight Mile, then got sent across the world to o...2025-04-2257 min
The Early Podcast#9 - The Accountant Turned Engineer – Early Uber Employee Ryan McKillen | The Early PodcastFor this episode, we’re going EARLY EARLY… Uber employee #3!Ryan McKillen helped build Uber from the ground up — literally. He walked in on day one to find a stack of pristine coding books… and one beat-up Spanish dictionary.“Why?”“All the code’s in Spanish. Welcome to Uber.”Ryan went from CPA to self-taught engineer, joined Uber pre-hypergrowth, helped launch Paris in 5 weeks, and was there for the infamous cease & desist moment that put the company on the map. He shares what it was like building through chaos, working side-by-side with Travis, and h...2025-04-1559 min
The Early Podcast#8 - Work Harder AND Smarter – Early Uber Employee Alyssa Pollack | The Early PodcastUber Eats would NOT be the business it is today without Alyssa Pollack.Diagnosed with stage 4 cancer as a teenager, Alyssa’s mom told her: “Today we cry. Tomorrow, we fight.” That mentality shaped everything — from surviving the unthinkable to scaling Uber's driver operations, helping launch Uber Eats, and now leading her own startup as CEO of Fellow.In this episode, we dive into:• Alyssa’s early days at Uber (yes, she was literally reprogramming driver phones in bars 🍻)• The wild evolution from black cars to UberX to Uber Eats• What made Ube...2025-04-0854 min
M&B PodcastM&B RUSSELL BRAND NEWRussell Brand EXPOSED / Brand New discussion is had / How the fuck can we ever "ethically" consume anything? / We're in our Accountant (2) era, not our Accountability era unfortunately / Brandon takes us down the rabbit hole of the time we almost NUKED THE MOON / Carl Sagan's involvement and his leaking of nuclear secrets / Cosmos (the 80's one) was a sick show / Neil Degrasse Tyson could never / The insane history of our scientific past has no bounds / A real breakdown on Jack Parsons - king of American rocketry and occult believer / Did communicating with demonic entities allow us to break through to...2025-04-051h 10
Investment Research RadioNia Health Interview with CEO Sameer DharJoin us as we sit down with Sameer Dhar of NiaHealth, the Canadian health-tech venture achieving explosive month-over-month growth while redefining proactive medicine. Discover how their clinician-guided platform combines: ✅ 50+ biomarker testing (VO2 max, microbiome, advanced blood panels) ✅ AI-powered health analytics translating data into personalized action plans ✅ Virtual-first care with unlimited clinician access at 1/10th traditional executive health costs Along with plans to integrate things like bio sensors for glucose minorting and possibly more biomarkers in the future. https://www.niahealth.co2025-04-0521 min
The Early Podcast#7 - Principled Confrontation – Early Uber Employee Rachel Holt | The Early PodcastHow Rachel Holt Helped Fight for Ridesharing in DC and beyond | Early Podcast Ep. 7Recorded in person, in New York City!In this episode of Early, Max Crowley sits down with Rachel Holt — one of the earliest and most impactful operators at Uber and one of the company's first General Managers. Rachel shares never-before-heard stories from the company’s early days, including regulatory showdowns in D.C., the launch playbook, hiring her first team, and what it was like working directly with Travis Kalanick during Uber’s most high-stakes moments.👀 What you’ll hear:2025-04-011h 02
The Early Podcast#6 - From Waiting Tables to Uber Legend – Early Uber Employee Jesse Lucas | The Early Podcast💥 It doesn’t get grittier than Jesse Lucas. From hustling his way into Napster, waiting tables at Olive Garden to stay afloat, and nearly getting fired at Uber before he even had the job... he ultimately helped scale one of the most iconic startups ever. Jesse’s story is one of resilience, persistence, and sheer determination.In this episode of The Early Podcast, Jesse sits down with Max Crowley to talk about:🔥 The scrappy hustle that got him into Napster and later into Uber🔥 Getting brutally rejected by Travis Kalanick—and how he earn...2025-03-2558 min
The Early Podcast#5 - The Battle for New York – Early Uber Employee Josh Mohrer | The Early PodcastNew York City is notoriously challenging for upstarts when battling with incumbents and even City Hall. It wasn't an easy journey, but in part thanks to Josh Mohrer, you can now use Uber throughout New York. As one of Uber's early employees, Josh transformed Uber from just 50 cars into a transportation giant, overcoming regulatory hurdles, intense media scrutiny, and political battles.🚀 From Early Employee to Winning the New York MarketJosh shares:🔹 How he went from selling funny shirts online to leading Uber NYC🔹 The $1,000 bonus str...2025-03-1848 min
The Early Podcast#4 - Arrested On The Job – Early Uber Employee Sam Gellman | The Early PodcastMissed a Huge Opportunity? Here’s How to Bounce Back.Imagine turning down a role as one of Facebook’s first employees... Sam Gellman did. He knew it was a mistake the moment he made it. But instead of letting that define him, he went on to help launch Uber across the world—building cities from scratch, battling regulators, and even getting arrested for doing his job.🚀 From Almost Facebook to Uber ExpansionSam shares:🔹 The accidental moment that landed him at Goldman Sach...2025-03-111h 01
The Early Podcast#3 - The Scale of China – Early Employee Candice Lo | The Early Podcast🚀 Inside Uber’s China Expansion & the Wild Early Days of Asia – with Candice Lo 🚀In this episode of The Early Podcast, I sit down with Candice Lo, one of Uber’s earliest international expansion leaders, who played a key role in scaling Uber across Asia and launching the company in China—one of the most ambitious and chaotic expansions in startup history.Candice started at Uber as a launcher, traveling to new cities with nothing but a suitcase, a laptop, and a box of iPhones, tasked with building the business from...2025-03-0457 min
The Early Podcast#2 - Scaling Uber Ops from Chicago to China – Early Employee Allen Penn | The Early PodcastFrom Tobacco Farms to Uber China: The Wild Journey of Allen Penn | The EARLY Podcast 🎙In Episode #2 of The EARLY Podcast, I sit down with Allen Penn, one of Uber’s first employees and the mastermind behind Uber’s expansion into Asia, China, and beyond. From growing up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky to leading billion-dollar markets at Uber, Allen’s journey is packed with startup lessons, leadership insights, and wild stories from the ride-sharing wars.🔹 Topics Covered:✔️ How Allen went from a small-town farm in Kentucky to the global startup scene✔️ The earl...2025-03-041h 34
The Early Podcast#1 - Launching The Early Podcast – Early Employee Max Crowley | The Early PodcastWelcome to The Early Podcast | Episode 1 🎙️🔥I’ve always thrived in front of an audience, so launching a podcast felt like the perfect way to channel that energy. This is the first episode of The Early Podcast, where we shift the focus from founders to the early employees who helped build the world’s most innovative companies.So much of the media spotlight is on founders—but the employees behind the scenes also take massive risks, push the envelope, and drive change. That’s what we’re here to explore.I was employee #25 at Uber, and that...2025-03-0440 min
ARN StoriesLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass dismisses Fire Chief Kristin CrowleyAfter one of the most destructive wildfires in California history pummeled the Palisades last month, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has responded by removing Kristin Crowley as the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The decision was announced Friday morning... It caused mixed reactions from residents and community members... with uncertainty as to the reasons. Reporting on the story is Max Reinardy. 2025-02-2502 min
The Early PodcastIntroducing The Early PodcastWelcome to The Early Podcast: Stories from Startup TrailblazersLaunching March 4th! Subscribe now.In this trailer, get a glimpse of Early, the podcast that uncovers the untold stories of startup builders. Each episode dives deep into the lives of early employees at the world’s most innovative companies—how they got started, what they learned, and how they helped shape success from the ground up.2025-02-2101 min
Maul or NothingBen Curry - That try, playing for England with Tom and Life as a Twin + Max "The Centurion" LahiffThe boys welcome England and Sale all action back row hero Ben Curry to get his thoughts on the Champions Cup weekends most outrageous piece of skill from a forward.... Visibly awkward at winning player of the match every week and even player of the month we hear about what was going through his head in that fabulous victory over Toulon.He also takes us through nilling Max's Bristol, playing for England with his twin brother Tom Curry (they were on the field for 1 second together....)Being identical does Ben...2025-01-211h 15
The MadHouseWe Live In Time (2024)This romantic comedy was directed by John Crowley and stars Andrew Garfield & Florence Pugh. In this film, a couple’s life is seen over the span of 10 years from their first initial meeting to the final moments of their lives. This film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2024 before having an American release on October 6th, 2024. 2024-11-1909 min
Show-Me Sports LegaciesMax Results! Putnam County Softball Era 1988-2007 Earns Missouri Sports Hall of Fame HonorsCoach Max Mothersbaugh and Traci (Mothersbaugh) Hurley join us to talk about the fantastic run of the Putnam County Lady Midgets Softball team. The era of Putnam County Softball from 1988 to 2007 was recently inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Those teams won 3 titles and made it to the Final Four in 12 of 20 years! Coach Mike Schmidli who succeeded Coach Mothersbaugh in 1998 is interviewed about his two teams that won state championships and highlights from the Hall of Fame ceremony. Join us for the key building blocks and great memories from a special era. Learn about imaginary baseballs and i...2024-11-0849 min
Fresh Hop Cinema357. "We Live In Time" // Gold Dot Beer (McMinnville, OR)This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;
Beers from Gold Dot Beer (McMinnville, OR)
Beer 1 - "Book Club Black Beer" // Black Beer // 5.3% // Max - 10. Jonny - 8.5.
Beer 2 - "Jaggers & Stags" // Cold IPA // 6.6% // Max - 3. Jonny - 3.5.
Film: "We Live in Time" directed by John Crowley. Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 10.
Inside Hot & Bothered:
- Max: "The Great Debaters" directed by Denzel Washington (2007) // "The Last King of Scotland" directed by Kevin Macdonald (2006)
- Jonny: "The Platform 2" directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (2024) // Golden Sky Festival and Shaboozey
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Episode Timeline:
0:00 - Intro, Ads, & Shout Outs
8:00 - Beer 1
24:00 - Film (No Spoilers)
34:50 - DANGER ZONE
49:20...2024-10-241h 16
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in History, WorldMarching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan by Bruce LeePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778497to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
Author: Bruce Lee
Narrator: David De Vries
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 24 hours 14 minutes
Release date: October 22, 2024
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military's breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict. With unprecedented access to over one million pages of...2024-10-2212h 14
C86 Show - Indie PopPeter Crowley - Max's Kansas CityPeter Crowley in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-at-Maxs-Peter-Crowley/dp/B0D7QR4F6Y
https://www.farwestpress.com/far-west-books/p/down-at-maxs-peter-crowley
Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for a breakfast, a reflection on what it was...2024-08-211h 22
True Tales of the IlluminatiThe Quibblerman Conundrum
Welcome to our final, celebratory minisode! We made it! Season 3 is happening! Let's celebrate with this episode, wherin the gang must race against time before a brilliant scientific mind unravels the secrets of the Illuminati!
This episode was written by and guest stars Tom Crowley. You can find more of his work over at Wooden Overcoats, Victoriocity, and Crowley Time, With Me, Tom Crowley amongst many, many others.2024-03-3027 min
The Entrepreneur's StoryThe Consultants Consultant - Max TraylorWelcome to The Entrepreneur's Story podcast, where host Dennis Crowley engages with trailblazing entrepreneurs who are rewriting the rules of business. In this inspiring episode, Dennis sits down with Max Traylor, the visionary founder of The Max Traylor firm. At just 30+ years old, Max is not only a solopreneur but also a professional paintballer, embodying the spirit of agility and innovation that defines his entrepreneurial journey. Max's approach to business is as unique as it is effective. With a mantra grounded in "digital, scalable, residual" principles, Max has empowered brilliant individuals to shatter the constraints of the...2023-11-0732 min
Built On PurposePodcast Host and Author, Mark C. CrowleyMark C. Crowley is the author of “Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century,” and his mission is to fundamentally change how we lead people in workplaces around the globe.
Mark is a regular columnist for Fast Company Magazine and has been published in USA Today, Reuters, Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Huffington Post, Gallup, The Financial Times, CEO Magazine, Great Britain, and the Seattle Times.
His two LinkedIn Pulse articles on inspiring a 21st Century workforce and managing millennials have been read well over a million times.
Pr...2023-09-211h 15
The CWB Association Welding PodcastEpisode 132 with Susan Crowley and Max CeronThe CWB Association brings you a weekly podcast that connects to welding professionals around the world to share their passion and give you the right tips to stay on top of what’s happening in the welding industry.Today's guest is Susan Crowley, Executive Director of the CWB Welding Foundation. The CWB Welding Foundation is a national not-for-profit registered charity, founded by the CWB Group in 2013, celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year. Through education-based programs and initiatives, they reduce barriers that affect key groups; elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students, educators, Indigenous Peoples, women, and the under-represented. 2023-07-1257 min