So "unsafe environment" = "somebody who disagrees with me"? How are we supposed to have conversations w each other like this, as humans? The whole point of a conversation is to gather different viewpoints!
Stem is versō which means "to turn"! Not to stay where you were before...
Our culture is four things: customer obsession instead of competitor obsession; willingness to think long term, with a longer investment horizon than most of our peers; eagerness to invent, which of course goes hand in hand with failure; and then, finally, taking professional pride in operational excellence.
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