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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Stripe comes up
Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
- ▶ 0:17 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Some of what I would say is, and this is something that Stripe valued, and I think a lot more companies are generally valuing this, which is you have to be able to operate simultaneously at 30,000 feet and ground level. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Brett Berson I think one of the things that you started to say, and I think my guess is knowing you a little bit over the years, and certainly the culture of Stripe is that there's the altitude shifting.
- ▶ 10:23 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser At Stripe, I strived really hard to have that be a company thing.
- ▶ 13:31 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser If you took Stripe under Claire,
- ▶ 29:15 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Maybe a more interesting way, just because at Stripe we hired so many, so I can go beyond just the ones I hired. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:23 unnamed speaker This was a challenge we had for a while at Stripe when we brought in a bunch of new executives at the same time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:22 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser One of the ways in which I saw this actually, like, work the best, um, uh, Stripe, sort of late in my tenure there, Stripe got much, much, much more rigorous about the budget is the budget, like, the, we've got headcount OpEx, and, like,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser I did this when, so I, I changed roles at Stripe, um, seven years in, I moved to run all of our global product partnerships. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:15 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser If I'm meeting, if I'm in a, you know, forecast call, um, you know, back, back in Stripe days, and, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:19 Brett Berson When you build a new capability, even as like, if you go back to Stripe and you're operating at mega scale, right? 5 times in the scene
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 28:31 Abhinav Asthana And this was the day, by the way, I think Stripe was probably founded, you know, in the end of the day.
- ▶ 37:51 Abhinav Asthana Stripe was a big part of it. 3 times in the scene
Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
- ▶ 36:14 Parag Agrawal One of the pieces of advice I got as I was starting this company, I spoke with Patrick Collins at Stripe.
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 5:54 Imad Akhund We have a bunch of people from Stripe, and Block, and Google, or whatever, so people bring their ideas, and the good ideas tend to be, like, you know, memes that percolate, and that's good.
- ▶ 29:49 Imad Akhund it was already Stripe and Square and PayPal and things like that. 2 times in the scene
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 8:56 Qasar Younis And so we use software to do that, and folks come from, I would say, high culture companies, like a Stripe, say like, this is like another level of, of that.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 36:11 David Cramer Turns out Heroku was a pain to use, but Stripe was up and coming, and you could implement billing really, really easily. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:18 Brett Berson Stripe is an amazing example of this. 3 times in the scene
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
- ▶ 0:15 Adit Abraham Like, where's the stripe length?
- ▶ 9:18 Adit Abraham Like, where's the Stripe link?
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 1:17 Brett Berson Today on In-Depth, I sat down with Aika D'Ameliano, global head of product at Stripe, to explore executive recruiting. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Brett Berson So like, put a pin in culture that are in between Stripe's culture and Amazon's culture, or, or pick other 8000 person companies that are selling generally to a developer audience, or generally to a business, uh, to sort of other…
- ▶ 12:28 Eeke de Milliano When I was at Stripe my first round, we, we had to sort of like a couple of operating principles 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Eeke de Milliano We ended up taking it down or Stripe ended up taking it down, like 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Brett Berson Tell me the story of an exec or two that has come into Stripe in your tenure, who is the positive case, that was just extraordinary. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Eeke de Milliano I don't actually know if John and Patrick did this with Claire, but I think because Claire came from Google and, like, that was already a product-led company, she fit quite well into the sort of product-led sales mindset, and that worked,…
- ▶ 44:41 Brett Berson In terms of people who have worked at a variety of companies, some of which were not successful or are not hot companies versus somebody that, you know, was at Google and then Palantir and then came to Stripe.
- ▶ 51:51 Brett Berson What did being at Stripe for a long time, leaving and joining Retool and then coming back to Stripe teach you?
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- ▶ 16:27 Varun Anand Until a million in ARR, I was just sending Stripe invoices to people, which was crazy for a self-serve product for like 200 a month.
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:58 Brett Berson On day zero of the consulting business, Tristan and his co-founders ended up building their own internal tool as a way to extract data out of disparate systems like Salesforce, Stripe, or Zendesk, and put it all together.
- ▶ 18:22 Tristan Handy So they would go to Salesforce or go to Stripe or go to Zendesk or whatever, and pull all that data into your warehouse.
- ▶ 23:26 Tristan Handy Take all of the data ingested from Stripe and Salesforce and wherever else and create tables that allowed you to analyze marketing channels and customer attention and all of this other stuff. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:45 Tristan Handy When you sell to software engineering, sometimes you can go PLG for a lot deeper in the journey and, you know, Stripe and Twilio and others have, have done that very successfully.
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 0:09 Krithika Muthukumar You know, we launched a capture the flag tournament at Stripe, and that's typically for, you know, infosec researchers and black hat type of areas of, of security research. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38 Brett Berson She's the former head of marketing at Retool, and before that she spent nearly nine years as a marketing lead at Stripe, where she joined back in 2013 after convincing co-founders Patrick and John Collison that they needed a marketer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:47 Brett Berson An interesting place to start would be telling the story about how you got involved with Stripe. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Krithika Muthukumar And he asked me to critique a recent landing page they'd put up about Stripe Connect, the very first early version of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Brett Berson And I think if you look at payment processing over the past 15 years, Stripe 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Brett Berson You launched Stripe Press, which I would view as a brand enhancing marketing initiative. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 Krithika Muthukumar You know, Stripe's long term goals were around increasing the GDP of the internet and in order to do so, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Krithika Muthukumar I'll be a little contrarian there in that I don't think we did at Stripe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:37 Krithika Muthukumar I mean, I was the first marketing hire at Stripe when it was 60 people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:07 Krithika Muthukumar Very different dynamic than at Stripe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:46 Krithika Muthukumar When I think about something like Stripe, even though you think of it as simple as accepting payments, there are so many differences in terms of the business model. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Krithika Muthukumar And I think one of the operating values at Stripe when I was there was, and that's changed and evolved over time, was we haven't won yet.
- ▶ 1:07:18 Krithika Muthukumar Tanya Kakbaz at Stripe was my manager, and she really taught me 2 times in the scene
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 2:23 Brett Berson You were kind of right there as this new generation of software got started, and then you participated kind of in this next generation when Twilio was coming up, Stripe was coming up, you started to build your last company. 3 times in the scene
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 42:03 Michael Lopp It's over at Stripe or it's over at OpenAI or something like that.
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 1:37 Brett Berson His winding career as an engineering leader has him building and scaling teams at technology companies like Stripe, Uber, Digg, and Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Will Larson So I think that the best one is kind of the, the Uber to Stripe transition. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:53 Will Larson 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
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 36:44 Guillermo Rauch You have Stripe for payments.
- ▶ 47:27 Todd Jackson It reminds me a little bit, I'm looking at Stripe.com's homepage, and Stripe.com says, financial infrastructure for the internet. 3 times in the scene
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 11:03 unnamed speaker He's like famous on Hacker News and Patrick McKenzie worked for Stripe for a long time.
- ▶ 24:40 Wade Foster That's the year that Stripe started, Twilio started.
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- ▶ 1:23 Todd Jackson You can think of it like Stripe or Twilio, but for shipping.
- ▶ 6:41 Laura Behrens Wu And like, specifically we were using our e-commerce stack was like the usual one, Stripe and, and Shopify, like two super easy, like SMB friendly, um, interfaces.
- ▶ 10:02 Laura Behrens Wu And then, um, we realized that, you know, Stripe has like the Stripe model of API first.
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 16:14 Noah Desai Weiss He uses that phrase quite a lot in terms of almost everything is adjacency to the core payment business, but what is Stripe's right to win?
Lessons from Stripe on adding new products | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)
- ▶ 0:00 Tara Seshan As Stripe got larger and larger, the question became not only why now, but like, what's the opportunity on the table for this idea? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Brett Berson Before joining Watershed, Tara was a product leader at Stripe and launched Stripe Billing and Stripe Treasury. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Brett Berson Before joining Watershed, Tara was a product leader at Stripe and launched Stripe Billing and Stripe Treasury.
- ▶ 2:31 Brett Berson And maybe we can sort of start there and have you share a little bit about maybe what Stripe was like when you joined and what kind of that path into the first few products looked like. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Tara Seshan And then we had started exploring, uh, this thing called Connect, uh, where Amber Feng and Christina Cordova had built an initial version of this, like, multi-party payments idea that
- ▶ 4:32 Tara Seshan And when Stripe was thinking about the second products, one of the like easy angles for that is who is our buyer? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Tara Seshan And so that's how Radar, the fraud product came about, where it's like, well, all these people are taking payments on cards, and you know what sucks about doing that?
- ▶ 5:22 Tara Seshan So that was Stripe Connect was the other kind of early multi-product bet that really worked out for the company.
- ▶ 6:43 Tara Seshan Um, at least that's how it worked with, with Stripe.
- ▶ 9:39 Tara Seshan When Stripe got larger and larger, the question became not only why now, but like, what's the opportunity on the table for this idea? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Brett Berson That is differential to all the other great product people at Stripe or at any company when you think about who should go do that?
- ▶ 12:59 Tara Seshan Um, but actually one of the things that made the most sense for Stripe in the early days, and I think made sense for Watershed, I was building out the initial PM team, is I, like, really strongly believe in hiring people for potential, not…
- ▶ 16:20 Tara Seshan I remember my boss at Stripe, when I was initially hired, told me we were interviewing a candidate who worked at Bain, and my boss was like,
- ▶ 17:27 Tara Seshan Like, I can think of someone of this profile that we hired at Stripe to be a PM. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:23 Tara Seshan So a great example of this was, like, billing at Stripe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:23 Tara Seshan So a great example of this was, like, billing at Stripe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Tara Seshan We were focused on the user at the moment of making the decision of whether to use Stripe or not for the cohort of businesses that were Stripe's core. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 Tara Seshan Like, to contrast Stripe and Watershed, the engine that powers Stripe is payments. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:42 Tara Seshan Um, that's a really analytical answer, and Stripe often takes that very analytical approach, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:14 Tara Seshan A lot of the PMs that we've hired to do that type of work are ex-founders, and that was true of Stripe as well.
- ▶ 45:19 Tara Seshan And so at Stripe, it was, you know, all kinds of Stripe assets, like the adoption of the API and our existing user base and our payments expertise, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:33 Tara Seshan A good example is like the classic early days of Stripe on how the UX of Stripe JS should work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:28 Tara Seshan I think, of course, um, working at Stripe for so many years, um, getting the, the PAFTA calls and like grilling of why your proposal makes sense has just introduced a ton of rigor and to, to how you think about it, specifically the why now… 3 times in the scene