A lot of people have come up with it before we got to like the first version of the cash card that we shipped. And there's a team still there, still doing like literally physical card objects that are not the same as anything that exists in market. The more sort of constrained metaphysics they are, I think actually the more this matters, you can't avoid the details. You just have to get it to them. If you don't, you can still do well, but it's actually more than likely fortune than skill.
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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