Ed Baker, former Head of International Growth at Facebook & VP of Product and Growth at Uber talks leaving Silicon Valley behind and becoming a world-class triathlete.

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Elite triathlete and former Facebook Head of International Growth & Uber VP of Product and Growth Ed Baker discusses founding his first company (4:43), lessons learned running startups (9:13), working with Mark Zuckerberg and Travis Kalanick (17:34), prioritizing sleep over exercise (24:36), becoming an Ironman triathlete (24:55), training methodology (27:10), insights from WHOOP (29:59), nutrition for endurance athletes (35:38), active recovery (39:53), his career highlight (44:40), pre-...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
0:13.2	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:19.1	Welcome to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and
0:23.9	CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. Now having recorded about
0:30.9	25 episodes on the Whoop podcast, I can truly say it's a great lens into understanding how high performers, top performers, do what they do.
0:43.0	At WOOP, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy SEALs, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:51.4	The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it take to
0:56.0	optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone? And now that we've just launched
1:02.0	all-new Woopstrap 3.0 featuring Woop Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis
1:08.7	to the next level, you're going to hear how many of these
1:13.0	users are optimizing their body with whoop and with other things in their life. On this podcast,
1:19.6	we dig deeper. We interview experts. We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology,
1:25.4	physiology, athletic achievement, you name it. How can you use
1:29.3	data to improve your body? What should you change about your life? My hope is that you'll leave
1:34.3	these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance. With that in mind,
1:39.9	I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.
1:51.0	For the 10 years or so that I was in Silicon Valley doing my own startup, then working at Facebook, then working at Uber, I pretty much put all of the athletic stuff on hold.
1:56.0	In 2017, I decided to leave Uber and actually also moved across the country back to Boston.
2:03.0	I decided to get back into shape and felt like triathlon would be a good sport to see what I could do.
2:11.2	How we doing today, folks? My guest is Ed Baker, wildly successful entrepreneur who started multiple companies before rising to become the head of international growth at Facebook and then later the VP of product and growth at Uber. Ed has experienced an amazing amount of success in technology and I am proud to now have him as a board member
2:36.8	at Woop. Now, as it pertains to Woop Data, Ed is a former collegiate runner during his time at
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