Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and first principles thinking | Ayo Omojola
发布时间 2023-05-14 12:00:10 来源
摘要
Ayo Omojola is Chief Product Officer at Carbon Health, one of the fastest-growing and most innovative health tech companies in the world. Previously, he was a PM leader at Cash App, where he co-created the Cash Card and scaled it to a nine-figure revenue line for Square. He’s also an angel investor in companies like Mercury, Modern Treasury, Faire, and many others. In this episode, we discuss:
• How Cash App broke through the noise and became a consumer app success story
• Why small teams are better than big ones
• Hard-won lessons on team building and hiring
• Why it’s “criminal” not to connect people in your network to things that they need
• Why you sometimes shouldn’t listen to experts
• The importance of first-principles thinking
• Advice for health tech founders
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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/frameworks-for-product-differentiation-team-building-and-thinking-from-first-principles-ayo-omojola-carbon-health-cash-app/#transcript
Where to find Ayo Omojola:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ay_o
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omojola/
• Blog: https://kunle.app/
Where to find Lenny:
• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Ayo’s background
(04:13) The story of how Ayo used Quora for discoverability
(06:44) The scale of Cash App
(07:37) What Cash App did well
(10:12) Lessons from building consumer apps
(13:08) Why it’s so important to be different
(14:08) What Ayo learned from how Square/Block operates
(16:36) How to succeed at building a startup within a startup
(19:06) How Ayo transitioned from fintech to health tech
(22:51) Why Ayo loves hiring founders
(28:32) Team-building strategies
(32:12) The importance of going deep and challenging assumptions
(36:58) Why you should always ask questions
(38:45) Lessons in leadership
(41:43) Advice for founders in the health-care space
(44:48) What Carbon Health is
(46:58) Lightning round
Referenced:
• Ayo on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Ayo-Omojola
• Carbon Health: https://carbonhealth.com/
• Cash App: https://cash.app/
• Lob: https://www.lob.com/
• Mailform: https://www.mailform.io/
• Venmo: https://venmo.com/
• PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/home
• Apple Cash: https://www.apple.com/apple-cash/
• Square: https://squareup.com/us/en/home/
• Block: https://block.xyz/
• Pinwheel: https://www.pinwheelapi.com/
• The Three-Body Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032
• Children of Time: https://www.amazon.com/Children-of-Time-audiobook/dp/B06ZXTHNSJ
• Children of Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Children-of-Memory/dp/B0B84HRYT1
• Children of Ruin: https://www.amazon.com/Children-of-Ruin-audiobook/dp/B07RB7WQR3
• Stormlight Archive: https://www.amazon.com/Stormlight-Archive-Boxed-Set-Books/dp/1250776635
• Fire in the Deep: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Deep-Robert-J-Miller/dp/1532611641
• War of the Worlds on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.49a287c2-44ed-4ffc-afa0-fab86dd0d31d
• Succession on HBO Max: https://play.hbomax.com/player/urn:hbo:episode:GWukCJAu0e4uHwwEAAAB5
• No Context Succession on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nocontextroyco
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