Building Products at Stripe - Bring the Donuts Newsletter
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Building Products at Stripe - Bring the Donuts Newsletter
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
John Collison • 202 Annual Letter to Stripe Users
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Stripe: high energy, sound judgment, small teams, and low ego creates magic.
Substack • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
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Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
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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
... See moreDefining "Product culture" : a place that lets you do the job and deliver products that solve customer problems.
Ken Norton • What Makes A Strong Product Culture?
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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.... See more
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
Nix 🕊 • highly concentrated effort
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