What do Olive Garden breadsticks, Napster, and Uber all have in common? 👉 Jesse Lucas.

In this Mini (Best Of) episode, Jesse shares his unlikely journey:

-Growing up working-class on Cape Cod

-Interning at Napster with Sean Fanning (and meeting Travis Kalanick years before Uber)

-Waiting tables at Olive Garden while his classmates worked at Goldman Sachs

-Breaking into Visa and learning finance from the ground up

-Joining Uber after its Series A and helping scale the company into a global powerhouse

This is the story of grit, timing, and turning setbacks into billion-dollar opportunities.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation with Jesse Lucas here and on more channels below.

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