Execs On Deck, Erik Torenberg

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.