Whoop

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2025 by Hilary Gridley · said 35 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 15, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Gridley built custom GPTs to give her team on-demand management feedback
“I build these GPTs that kind of think like me. And the purpose of that is so that my team can get feedback that is at least 80% close to the feedback that I would be giving them, but instead of having to wait until I get to their message or until our one-on-on…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 1:24:29 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Litigating past criticism makes people look defensive, not effective
“Whenever we feel our ego's injured, I think it's very natural for all of us to say like, well, that's not fair. I want to correct the record. When you do that, I think more than often, more often than not, you come off as just looking defensive, and you kind o…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 9:16 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Managers must prepare teams for failure, not just success
“As managers, you spend a lot of time teaching your team how to be successful, right? You want to prepare them to maximize the chances of a good outcome. But if you don't also prepare them for what happens when that outcome isn't as good you're gonna run into s…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 8:24 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Shared mental models of leadership enable companies to move faster
“When you get an entire organization working that way, where everyone's working from the same models of, like, how, what the CEO thinks matters what level of, like, risk tolerance the company has, things like that, then you can actually start to move much, much…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 31:44 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Approval bottlenecks are communication failures, not process problems
“I think people will often say like, oh, it's a process problem. It's not a process problem. It's not an approval process problem. It's a, I think it's a transparency and it's a communication problem, like downward communication, outward communication.”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 28:45 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gridley: Will Ahmed's pixel-level obsession makes Whoop a vastly superior product
“Our CEO will is somebody who obsesses over pixels in a way that is, you know, challenging to get things through design review, but I think results in a product that is a thousand times better than it would be if he were accepting of, you know, small excuses he…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 32:30 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Forcing reports to propose answers builds judgment and reduces dependency
“Like, when they come to me and they say, well, what do you think I should do? Or you know, what could I have done differently? I'll say, like, rephrase that as, tell me what you think you could have done differently, and then ask me if I agree. And when I do t…”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 43:37 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
Insight
Gridley: Understanding how a CEO thinks matters more than what they think
“What is what much more helpful than understanding what your CEO thinks is I think understanding how your CEO thinks.”
Hilary Gridley Jun 15, 2025 ▶ 29:44 How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
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