Christian Baaki

The quality of political Insiders and officials has collapsed as high talent has migrated (startups, hedge funds, mixes of maths and money etc).

This breed of company will never spring from the mind of a committee; it would never have been permitted to endure in its current form, with thousands of employees organizing themselves around problems at hand, if we had submitted to the conventional managerial model in American corporate life.

During our first year in business we didn’t spend a dollar on acquisition. Rather than becoming overly dependent on paid acquisition to grow, we invested our time and effort into product led growth. (We also didn’t really have any money to spend).

It worked. We operated super lean and really optimized our funnels and user experience.

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If I seem so happy to you, you could never say anything that would please me so much. For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.’

The impact of the corporate income tax on the economy is much larger than the actual amount of taxes collected. Additionally, the overall size of the wage base is many times the amount of the corporate taxes collected, so a small increase in the corporate tax can have a relatively large effect on wages.

The regimes push: higher taxes, higher debts, more wars they then botch, visible collapse of state authority over borders and citizenship, more political centralisation that makes crises worse, more hostility to entrepreneurs and those who can build and create value.

“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world’s just uglier than it needs

For any teachers reading this, invite dragons back into your classrooms. Allow boys to compete. Keeping tabs of great answers and intellectual risks taken in class is a great way to engage boys. Inter-class competitions really get them going… Reward amazing performances. Reward them when they take on challenges. Pat them on the back… Boys need