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
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.
The people who build collective power are typically individuals who have lacked traditional access to individualized power. What they know too is that collective power is, well, empowering.