What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

Some leveraged things I’ve done are writing, writing software, making businesses which employed people other than me, and joining forces with smart people to work on the problems I seek to solve. I ran my own businesses for a number of years, including a startup with co-founders, and greatly enjoyed the experience, but I felt like I was maxing out on the challenges available in running small software companies. Fifteen years into this career thing I definitely know what my success function for the next thirty is: the product of the number of people I’ve helped in the community I serve (software people, broadly writ) times the delta in the average life that my efforts uniquely caused.

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