Execs

Ayo Omojola is Senior Vice President of Product at Carbon Health and an avid angel investor. Prior to working at Carbon, he was Product & Business Lead at Cash App.

In this episode, Ayo talks about what it’s like working in regulated spaces like finance and healthcare. He also shares frameworks for engineering, product marketing, and how to “go unreasonably deep” on problems.

Rishi Tripathy, group product lead at On Deck, joined me in this episode as a guest co-host. We hope you enjoy.

Adam Ferris is the Chief Financial Officer of New York Shipping Exchange.

Adam is the first CFO we’ve had on the show, so we discuss how to build out a finance team, how to set that team up for success, and how founders should think about the finance function in their business from forecasting to managing burn.

Arthur Matuszewski was most recently the VP of Talent & People at Better after leading portfolio options at Human Capital and strategic talent sourcing at Wayfair.

This episode is about the fundamentals of building out talent teams. We highlight frameworks and first principles for hiring talent more broadly, and then talk about how that changes during hypergrowth.

Andrew Munday is the cofounder and COO of Local Kitchens - a digital food hall. Before that, he was employee #1 at DoorDash.

In this episode, we talked about strategies for supply acquisition and retention in a marketplace, how to iterate manually before you have a robust product team, how to hire well, how to scale culture, and much more.

Brie Wolfson writes detailed organizational frameworks like the ones you hear on this show at https://koolaidfactory.com/ . Before she launched the Kool Aid Factory, she was a leader on Figma’s education team after four and a half years at Stripe building Stripe Press.

Matt MacInnis is the COO of Rippling. He was also founder and CEO of Inkling for 9 years after working at Apple for 7 years.

In this conversation, we discuss the role of the COO, how to set culture, and other lessons learned scaling Rippling.

Kat Cole is the president and COO of Athletic Greens. She also served at the top level of leadership for Focus Brands for 12 years, including as COO & President.

In this episode, we talk about leadership. Kat details how and why to optimize an organization for learning, shares how to lead with a heavy heart, and emphasizes that leaders shouldn’t have all the answers - they should have all of the questions.

Tyler Cowen is an economist, professor, best-selling author, and co-creator of the blog "Marginal Revolution." His latest book, Talent, is available now.

In this episode, Tyler talks about how to identify and cultivate talent. We discuss frameworks for assessing stamina, identifying late bloomers, and how to organize the world’s ambition.

Ravi Mehta is the co-founder & CEO of Scale Higher - a coaching organization reinventing the way that people learn and grow. Prior to launching his company, Ravi was the Chief Product Officer at Tinder, a Product Director at Facebook, and a VP of Consumer Product at Trip Advisor.

In today’s episode, we discuss frameworks for anti-fragility, hiring, and empathetic product management. Towards the end, we also pick Ravi’s brain on the future of dating, consumer product, and much more.

Ellen DaSilva is currently building her own company after almost four years of leading strategic partnerships and biz dev at him & hers.

In this episode, Ellen shares her golden rules for partnerships. She discusses how to get stakeholder buy-in at every level, how to identify excellent growth talent via good interview questions, and how to partner up when you’re the less credible party in a negotiation.

Lauren Hoffman, Head of Partnerships at On Deck, joined Erik in this episode as a guest co-host.