Collison: Hiring Billy Alvarado for banking partnerships changed Stripe's trajectory
Patrick Collison · Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator · Oct 3, 2018 · at 26:14
Patrick Collison (co-founder/CEO of Stripe) reflects on hiring Billy Alvarado as Stripe's first non-engineering hire to handle bank partnerships.
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“We hired Billy and that was sort of an immediately trajectory changing event where, you know, previously when we'd gone and talked to a bank, I mean, I don't know if they were literally doing this, but it certainly felt They were kind of pushing the security button under their desk. It's like, why are these guys in my office? And then suddenly things started to go kind of much more smoothly and Billy is still with Stripe today and has been an enormously kind of pivotal presence.”
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