Building Products at Stripe - Bring the Donuts Newsletter

Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):

Be fanatic about product excellence

We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every

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People at Stripe really care. The returns of care, like sweating the details, are un-quantifiable... the long-term aggregate returns of caring a lot is super high.

I think this is deeply embodied by a very large fraction of the first 100 people at Stripe but it became this thing with a tremendous amount of momentum and endurance. And people at Stri

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Internally, our first Operating Principle is “Users First”. Some companies are technology-first:  they do some R&D, invent interesting tech, and figure out how to commercialize it. That’s a very  viable and successful approach for many companies. But Stripe is lucky enough to serve  millions of smart, discerning, and demanding bu... See more