Rippling GM on Running a $16B+ Company Like a Product at Scale | Anique Drumright | E283

Building a great product org, you're ultimately hiring for people to love and own your product the way the founders do, the way that their original team does. You're hiring for a mess amount of curiosity and leadership and commitment to execution. How do you leverage the power of the rippling platform from the ability to create workflows, create very granular groups, and so on and so on, while also striving to build the best product experience that you can. Groups are powering everything that Rippling does. That makes my product better. How do we unlock the power of the platform to further differentiate our product? I think that's a fun part and a really challenging part of product management is Hey. This is Carlos, CEO at Product School and your host on the product podcast. Today's guest is Anik Drumwright, general manager and VP of product at Rippling. Rippling is an absolute rocket ship in the HR and IT space, currently commanding a massive $16,800,000,000 valuation and accelerating past $570,000,000 in annual revenue. Rippling maintains its incredible product velocity and AI automation by employing over 100 former founders. During our conversation, Annique breaks down her playbook to build high performing product teams based on her experience leading multi billion dollar products at Uber, Loom, and now Rippling. The GM mindset, how modern product leaders must pivot from managing a feature backlog to owning a full p and l in driving the business as a true general manager. Compound start startups, the strategic framework for building an all in one platform that creates a systemic competitive moat by consolidating multiple enterprise categories. The go and see culture, the counterintuitive leadership strategy for keeping a startup's ruthless velocity and high product quality with a global team of over 4,000 employees. Let's dive in. Hello, everybody. I'm very aware of the fact that I'm between this and the happy hour, so I promise I'll make this as interactive and fun as as possible. It's easy for me because I have Anik, who's awesome. Welcome, Anik. Hey. No pressure. So we're doing a live edition of the product podcast. This is a podcast that I've been hosting for the last six years. It's funny. At the beginning, nobody cared. Now a lot of people care, but it's always more fun when we get to do these things in person and there is actually an audience. So so here we go. Well, Nick and I go way back. You first contributed to product school and you were at Uber, I think. And you've been constantly doing things for the community as you continue evolving in your career. So you've worked at Uber, TripActions, Loom, and now Rippling. Yes. It's been it's been a journey with product school. I have a few stats here about Rippling, because it's pretty impressive. So guys raised approximately approximately 8,500,000,000.0 across multiple rounds at a latest valuation of 16,800,000,000.0, reported annual recurring revenue exceeding 570,000,000 as of early twenty …