Vanta

10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2026 by Jeremy Epling · said 16 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 19, 2026 positive
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Epling: Senior leaders must label feedback levels to control executive megaphone
“He actually just puts, like, what level of feedback is in front of everything. Like, this is an idea, this is a suggestion, or, like, I expect you to take action on this. I think that's something I've learned from my team, that the, like, the more I've kind of…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 37:12 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026
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Epling: New Vanta engineers must ship to production in week one
“Our expectations, you're going to write a PR your first week and like ship something to production.”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 1:05:24 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 neutral
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Epling: Boards nitpick minor issues more when a startup performs well
“The board is, like, harsher when we're doing well, because there's, like, no real problem to, like, talk about, you know what I mean? So it'll be, like, pushing on all these, like, little things that, like, kind of matter, but not as much, but, like, If anythi…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 27:39 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 positive
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Epling: Unifying product and engineering leadership accelerates cross-functional trade-off decisions
“I think what you gain is a faster decision-making process. So when you want to go through and decide, hey, do we need to do this big technical re-architecture, and that's gonna trade off against some product features, you need to go through and, like, make tho…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 29:25 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 negative
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Epling: Habitual devil's advocacy is counterproductive on executive teams
“I think when it gets, when it feels like someone's just becoming devil's advocate, that becomes negative from my perspective, because it's just like, I'm just trying to find issues in everything and any plan you can find issues in, you know what I mean? So I t…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 24:49 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 positive
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Epling: Companies succeed by embracing conflict and viewing escalations positively
“I do think there's always a bit of, like, built-in tension, you know, in the system that I actually don't think is a bad thing. Like, I'm comfortable with conflict and things and thinks, like, companies are more successful and more comfortable they get with co…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 18:36 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026
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Epling: Never give a founder CEO complete product ownership without a PM
“I never give them, like, complete ownership, if, like, in that regard, I would say I always assign a PM with it. And it's a PM that's like exciting cause it's cool to work with like the CEO and the founder on things.”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 35:14 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026
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Epling: Engineering teams should target hitting 90% of dates to avoid sandbagging
“We ask people to write dates and commit to them. We expect us to be able to hitting, like, 90% of the dates, which I think is, like, reasonable. If it drops down to 85, I'm not worried. If it drops down to, like, 80 or 75, I start to get worried. Like, I want …”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 1:07:24 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 positive
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Epling: Specialty sellers unlocked growth for Vanta's new products
“And that was like one of the fixes we did this year where we're like, wow, when we talk to the general sellers, they just don't know how to go into these deep conversations for the new product. They're kind of scared about selling it because this thing's alrea…”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 42:11 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
Mar 19, 2026 positive
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Epling: Leaders at companies under thousands of employees must stay in details
“I think when you're still in the thousands, though, like, you should still be doing it, and I think that's part of our philosophy. Like, at Vanta, I think we really expect people to be in the details, and that's something that I believe a lot. Like, It's just …”
Jeremy Epling Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 36:31 The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
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