Aaron: I was going to ask what draws you towards regulated, highly regulated industries being a cash app. And I like that you already went there basically just found that that's maybe the thing that you could get really smart at. That's an interesting insight about yourself. Like this could be the thing that I get good at. Or differentially better at than other people. You kind of like mentioned this off to the side of this idea that you like to hire founders. And can you speak more to that? Just like what that means in your day to day and then maybe how your team looks today is that is a mostly founders or some large.
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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