Brie Wolfson
@briewolfson
mostly researching, thinking, and writing about company culture via The Kool-Aid Factory and Founder Fodder (newsletter). Used to Stripe (Stripe Press, BizOps) and Figma (Figma for Education).
Brie Wolfson
I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places:
1/Turpentine
2/Writing
3/Meticulousness
4/Principled decision-making
5/Ambition
6/Talking up
7/The... See more
Brie Wolfsontwitter.comHiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11)
youtube.comEven if you want to be big someday, remember that you never need to act like a big boring company.
Derek Sivers • Little things make all the difference | Derek Sivers
How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla
khoslaventures.com
Company Culture and
Stripes that move on from the company and find themselves at companies that don’t embrace the written word to the same extent. I count myself among them. We all report feeling a bit lost and disconnected from their colleagues without it.
Kool-Aid Factory • Writing In Public, Inside Your Company
Noyce knew exactly what he possessed in this integrated circuit, or microchip, as the press would call it. Noyce knew that he had discovered the road to El Dorado.
Tom Wolfe. • The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that... See more