Muthukumar: Early Stripe shipped over 100 features per year
Krithika Muthukumar · Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI) · Aug 1, 2024 · at 5:46
Krithika Muthukumar describes the product shipping velocity during her early months as Stripe's first marketer.
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“We were shipping more than a hundred features a year even in the early days of Stripe.”
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