Managing a Team Is a Big Thing, Right?

A huge part of your time as an engineering manager at a company like Stripe, we are growing very quickly, is actually the mechanics of growing a team. I probably spent like half my time doing that. And so part of the idea with a deliberately smaller partnership is you can spend more of your time focusing on the actual product in the business. Yeah, certainly for me, there was an appeal to being in more of a maker mode,.