🚀 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 investor

Candice’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.

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