Building a Global Payroll Solution | 6min snip from Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth

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Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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Building a Global Payroll Solution

This chapter explores the strategic development of a global payroll product at a tech company, emphasizing the benefits of supporting multiple countries from the outset. It highlights the importance of designing comprehensive solutions that facilitate efficient data management and adaptability across integrated businesses.

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Jeremy Henrickson is Rippling’s SVP of Product, responsible for scaling their product and design team across three continents. Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, he oversaw 10x growth of the product and engineering organization and transformed a scrappy startup into a global cryptocurrency platform with tens of millions of users. He began his career at Apple in the 1990s and holds a BS and MS in computer science from Stanford. In today’s episode, we discuss:

• Strategies for sustaining focus and momentum at scale

• The case against MVPs

• The problem with frameworks

• “Compound startups” and how this influences Rippling’s product development process

• Advice for founders wanting to move faster

• Why you don’t understand your product unless you’re “in the weeds”

• Hiring practices at Rippling and how young PMs can build fruitful careers

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Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/moving-fast-and-navigating-uncertainty

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Where to find Jeremy Henrickson:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyhenricks