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.

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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg 
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
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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.

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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.

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Featuring guest: @andrewRM3
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
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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.

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Featuring guest: @zebriez
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
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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.

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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg 
Featuring guest: @stanine
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
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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. 

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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg 
Featuring guest: @KatColeATL
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
Brought to you by: @beondeck 

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.

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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg 
Featuring guest: @tylercowen
Produced by: @jacksonsteger 
Brought to you by: @beondeck