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“The more happy people you have and the more good outcomes you get. And I think, you know, quite often, if you try to run a company with business plans and financial models and everything, You kind of deviate from that.”

“I basically have, like, three roadmaps, a two-year roadmap, a five-year roadmap, and a ten-year roadmap. The two-year roadmap is more or less decided already now, so it's basically executing against this, and I'm not involved. And I make my decisions on the fi…”

“If you want like, you know, factual tips, I have three types of meeting. I have the 15 minute meeting, the 30 minutes meeting, and the 45 minutes meeting. You have to choose between these three, and I always keep 15 minutes in each hour to do emails and WhatsA…”

“I don't have a framework. I make a lot of gut feel decisions and instinctive decisions, and by that, what I mean is that, of course, as a CEO now, I mean, I have a CEO office, I have a great leadership team, and I do have access to data, but I don't think that…”

“We are a value-driven company. So you have certain companies that are mission-driven. That's not us. We're a value-driven company.”

“Five good engineers are better than a hundred average ones.”

“What I do at the end of the week, every single week with the team that actually helps me manage my time, is that we raise the meetings. Was that a good meeting? Yes or no? Was that a meeting where I needed to be there? If I didn't need to be there, then we kil…”

“If you take the three leaders today, which are ID and Stripe and Checkout, we're literally scratching the surface of what's possible. This is mathematical. All the revenue is still sitting in the incumbents”

“Fundamentally I have a good group of mentors that really like look after me, that are people that don't have any vested equity or equity in the company.”

“I think nothing compounds like payments, so it's kind of hard to say, but I think it's going to be more growth, more people, more merchants, more products, more geographies.”

“We have never spent a single dollar of the money that we have raised. So I mean, all the money is sitting on the balance sheet.”

“We had never spent a single dollar in marketing before the series.”

“Two thirds of the company is product and engineering today.”

“I mean, you've got to be at checkout. I mean, we did that deal on a handshake. We never signed a term sheet.”

“I don't think Stripe is a good business because you compete against ad yen and checkout and your biggest customers will compete.”