Hi, I'm Jeremy.

Thanks for being here. I'm a father, husband, product executive, and founder. A little about me:

• I grew up in Sacramento, CA and now live in the Portland, OR area.
• Initially dropped out of school to work in real estate to help support my mom and dad.
• Eventually went to UC Berkeley and spent most of my career in Product.
• Product leader at pre-IPO GitLab, Head of Product at Remote.com.
• Bootstrapped and scaled an eCommerce company to $X in ARR.
• I like taking photos and cooking things for other people. Cooking is an expression of love that I cherish improving at.
• I SCUBA dive - the underwater world is largely unexplored, mysterious, and magical.
• I love trying to be the best husband and father I can be.

My personal values

Choose enthusiastic optimism

• We improve the world by shaping it from a place of "what if it works" vs. "what if it doesn't".
• Don't ignore risks, but minimize them and push forward.
• The best version of the world only exists if we believe in it and create it!

Care deeply about others

• You can be kind, empathetic, and care about others and also operate and scale a great business.
• Building great things you want others to find useful inherently requires a deep interest in those people.
• We spend too much time at work to tolerate jerks.

Do things, quickly

• Move with extreme speed - we quickly learn where to point a firehose.
• The cavalry is not coming; we're on our own!
• Everyone sweeps the floor.
• Small, highly autonomous teams are best.

I'm here to help

• It's my privilege and moral imperative to help others succeed.
• I'm a servant leader and actively work to support the effectiveness and happiness of others.
• I derive my greatest joys from seeing others around me win.

Be open and intellectually honest

• Transparency is essential for making good decisions: share work early/often and don't communicate in silos.
• Always be open to the possibility that we're wrong.
• Great products come from asking great questions.

My role

Lead the strategy discussion

• Fundamentally understand the market and the problems of our customers.
• Bring strong opinions and ideas for our vision, weakly held.
• Make sure our roadmap reflects the most important things we want to do, with business rationale.

Execute with efficiency

• Set the pace and challenge us to iterate in small, meaningful steps.
• Get us talking to customers frequently and using data to make decisions.
• Be the glue between departments and protect/unblock my team.

Coach and create a wonderful environment

• Ensure everyone is having a great experience and has what they need to thrive.
• Hire the right people at the right time.
• Create a collaborative, transparent, customer-obsessed team culture.