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What do Raycast, Mainframe, Daylight, Amo and many of today's top startups have in common? They all hired @hamburger for storytelling 👀 So I interviewed him to learn his secrets 👇 https://t.co/9iR8xKwRg2

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Jeff Weinstein (@jeff_weinstein) is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start companies into a few simple clicks with @atlas. Prior to Stripe, Jeff led several startups and sold companies to Groupon and Box. He’s known for his customer obsession, craft,... See more

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interviewing customers is tremendous for driving reframes, which are crucial shifts in perspective that flip an initial problem on its head.

Steve Portigal • Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights

Stripe founder John Collison explains his product principle of “talking up to the user” John believes current consumer product thinking can be harmful: “You have users by the wheelbarrow. You treat them in aggregate. You talk about MAUs. Everything is statistical and everything - like... See more

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A conversation with Jony Ive

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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that, there is no where

The best critic possible on the book The Gift .--At the 45th International Design Conference in Aspen in 1995, Milton Glaser began a speech by arguing that the axiom “good design is good business” may no longer be useful to designers in explaining the value of their creativity to clients. He returned to the idea of “good design” in his conclusion:... See more

Rob Giampietro • Lined & Unlined · Form-giving

What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and