It seems as if a high-pressure job at a Silicon Valley startup would have been dangerous for someone newly sober. But the opposite is true for Geidt.
That honor went to Austin Geidt, Uber's earliest employee.In 2010, she saw some tweets about a startup looking for an intern. That startup was Uber. Back in 2010, the economy was still really rocky in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 financial collapse. Jobs — even internships — were hard to get and her résumé was"blank," she told the audience atShe reached out to Uber's CEO at the time, Ryan Graves, who told her to put together a presentation about herself.
She's not a named officer at the company, so the company doesn't have to reveal how much stock she owns, so we don't know how many millions she made on Uber's massive IPO.When she was 19 and in college, she had a drug problem, she says. But she"was super insecure about feeling behind," she said."I was a sober, 25-year-old senior. Which was a super different experience."
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