#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 scratch. Eventually, she became a key figure in Uber’s battle for China, where she faced everything from regulatory raids to massive taxi protests—all while trying to outmaneuver local competitors in a hyper-aggressive market.💡 In this episode, Candice shares:✅ How she landed a job at Uber after a six-month hiring process✅ What it was like launching Uber in China—and how it nearly broke her✅ The wildest moments from Uber’s early expansion, from police raids to billion-dollar battles✅ Her biggest lessons from working under Travis Kalanick & Uber’s leadership team✅ How her experience as an operator shaped her current career as an investorCandice’s story is great—this is a must-listen for anyone interested in startups, scaling businesses, and what it really takes to go from 0 to 1.🔥 New episodes drop every Tuesday—subscribe and join the journey!📩 Email me at [email protected] with feedback or guest suggestions.📱 Follow for daily updates & behind-the-scenes content.🎧 Listen now and don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe!Let’s do this! 🚀🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://shorturl.at/e6FUf🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/Crg2V📩 Newsletter & More Content: https://www.earlyemployee.com/subscribe🐦 Follow on X (Twitter): https://x.com/maxjcrowley📸 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earlypod💼 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxjc/#EarlyPodcast #Startups #Uber #China #TechStartups #Entrepreneurship #BusinessExpansion #Podcast