Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead) | Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career | Podwise
This podcast episode features an interview with Jeff Weinstein, a product leader at Stripe, who discusses his unique approach to learning, mindset, and product development. He emphasizes the importance of embracing challenging classes and learning from historical scientific theories. The episode highlights the significance of solving real problems that people need and want, rather than focusing solely on craft and beauty in product development. The speaker emphasizes the value of actively listening to customers, understanding their needs, and involving them in the product development process. The episode also emphasizes the importance of selecting the right metrics, aligning them with customer needs, and tracking bad day metrics. It discusses the effectiveness of study groups in promoting customer empathy and scaling behavior. The episode showcases Stripe's platform, Atlas, which simplifies the process of starting a company and highlights the power of automation. It concludes with discussions on the growth of Stripe Atlas, diversity in startups, and the challenges and advice for entrepreneurs.
