Will Larson

Everything Will Larson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

IN DEPTH Assertion Supported

Stripe's core undocumented technical strategy was maintaining a Ruby monolith

“Undocumented strategies at Stripe was we use a Ruby monolith. And so everything was done in the Ruby programming language with a few minor exceptions.”

Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 9:44 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

IN DEPTH Disclosure

Stripe offered enterprise SLAs with financial penalties below four nines uptime

“So at Stripe, we had a reliability like SLA that we kind of extended to enterprise customers in terms of there was actually like a financial consequence to us if we dipped Below a certain level of uptime. Like I think it was less than four nines of API availab…”

Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 35:53 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

IN DEPTH Insight

Executive presentations must zoom from high-level goals to specifics in 30 seconds

“I think that the best folks presenting to executives start super zoomed out and then zoom in to their specific problem over the course of like 30 seconds.”

Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 1:01:31 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

IN DEPTH Insight

Larson: Calibrate executive presentations by pre-testing with chiefs of staff or EAs

“Testing a little bit with Folks who have context that aren't the exec themselves is the easiest way to help calibrate.”

Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 1:03:10 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

IN DEPTH Insight

The tech industry gives opportunities to learn rather than teaching proper execution

“Like we kind of joked earlier, like this isn't an industry that teaches you how to do things. It's an industry that gives you opportunities to learn how to do things.”

Will Larson Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 1:09:50 A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

The other half of the tape: Will Larson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Alex Hardiman 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Will's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
IN DEPTHLEDGER	CTO, Imprint	1	36	100% 1/1	full record on In Depth →
LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER	CTO, Imprint	1	17	50% 1/2	full record on Lenny's Podcast →