Company Culture

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... Show more

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… Show more

Many have asked for a copy of this book, here are all the pages in this thread

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 API metaphor

A company isn't a family. Parents don't fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times. A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.