Aaron: I don't think there's a one shot answer. When I joined cast up was like 11 or 12. And it wasn't much more than that for like a year. We had real scale and a real business before we had a real headcount, is the way out to it. The last giant money movement thing that hasn't really come to the next level in my career has been carbon health. Aaron: How do you stitch two things together? There are a bunch of very personal, like ego things like I want to build teams as well as mostly founders. He went from consumer FinTech to consumer health tech.
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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