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Muthukumar: Stripe delayed an open-source page by six weeks for animation
“We delayed the launch of that page by almost a month and a half because our design team wanted to implement the game of life in the background, in the header background of that page. And that sounds crazy. It's like, why would you delay the launch of that by s…”
Muthukumar: Stripe required 'red pen' reviews for content reaching 100 users
“So if it was, you know, touching an audience size of less than a hundred or so users, We would expect you to just get a peer to take a look at it to make sure that we didn't have any grammatical errors, but anything above that, it went through that review proc…”
Muthukumar: ChatGPT has over 100 million weekly active users
“And in ChatGPT, we see more than a hundred million active users on a weekly basis.”
Muthukumar: Stripe had no dedicated marketing hire before late 2013
“And I convinced them that they needed a marketer. They hadn't had a marketer until then and convinced them that they needed someone to think about marketing as a discipline full time. So I joined in, in late, 2013.”
Muthukumar: Early Stripe shipped over 100 features per year
“We were shipping more than a hundred features a year even in the early days of Stripe.”
Muthukumar: About 10,000 developers completed Stripe's capture the flag challenge
“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 security research. And we did that at the payments domain, and we had no expectations of how many developers would partic…”
Muthukumar: Stripe Press was incubated outside of marketing
“Stripe Press was an organization outside of marketing when it first started. We incubated it as a program that was really more mission driven.”
Muthukumar: Retool achieved >3x ROI on its first trade show booth
“The very first trade show that we did was more than three X ROI payback on the investment that we put into the booth”
Muthukumar used ChatGPT to build OpenAI's first lead scoring script
“In my early weeks at OpenAI, we launched ChatGPT Enterprise for the first time and our lead volume went through the roof. And so I worked with ChatGPT to create a Python script that was our first lead scoring module that we put into production for the sales te…”