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

It's very, very tempting to to kind of float up here as a leader and say, Hey, you know you take that hill over there, you guys do this over here. When in fact, like what you where you really learn where the challenges are or the problems or the successes is by like just like being there with with the people in the trenches on like one of the things, like whichever one seems hardest or most complicated. And so I try to do that as often as I can and I found that I always learn a lot by by going through that detailed exercise Welcome to Lenny's Podcast, where I interview world-class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard-won experiences building and growing today's most successful products.

Today my guest is Jeremy Henrickson. Jeremy is senior vice president of product at Rippling, where he leads the product and design teams. Previously, he was chief product officer at Coinbase. Where he oversaw 10x growth of the product and engineering organizations and helped scale Coinbase during one of the craziest times in the crypto markets. In your conversation, Jeremy shares his lessons about maintaining velocity at scale, creating a culture of fast decision making, the importance of product leaders going deep on a problem, and becoming world experts at their domain. What to look for in product managers you're interviewing?

Why relying on frameworks can be so detrimental to your success. why you may want to avoid MVPs and instead design for the most complex use cases first. And tons more. Enjoy this episode with Jeremy Henriksen after a short word from our sponsors. Today's episode is brought to you by Miro, an online collaborative whiteboard that's designed specifically for teams like yours.

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