Greymatter

Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO | Blitzscaling 11

17 snips
Mar 2, 2016
Ask episode
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
XKCD Yak Shave: A Social Network for Credit Cards
04:09 • 3min
3
How I Built a Payments API for Developers
06:52 • 2min
4
The Importance of Having a Strong Foundational Relationship With Your Brother
08:36 • 2min
5
How to Grow a Successful Company by Bringing Other Management Into It
10:39 • 5min
6
The Silence of History
15:29 • 3min
7
The Power of Twitter
18:31 • 2min
8
How to Reconstruct Humanity
20:06 • 2min
9
The Mimetic Force of Play in Silicon Valley
21:50 • 3min
10
How to Hire the Best Developers at Stripe
24:43 • 5min
11
The Importance of Compound Interest in the Potency of Terror
29:33 • 2min
12
The Importance of Product Market Fit
31:08 • 3min
13
How to Talk About Scale in Public
34:27 • 3min
14
The Future of Apps
37:21 • 2min
15
How to Set Up Back End Relationships With Credit Card Processes
39:37 • 5min
16
How to Evaluate Your Product Value Proposition
44:07 • 4min
17
Bitcoin: A Decentralized Infrastructure
48:28 • 3min
18
The Importance of Having a CEO and Founder in the Details
51:45 • 2min
19
The Slowdown of Product Innovation in Startups
53:43 • 4min
20
How Stripe Is Changing the Way It Works
58:09 • 3min
21
The Importance of Formal Explanatory Communication in a Startup
01:01:26 • 2min
22
The Balance of Consistency and Alignment
01:03:43 • 2min
23
The Uncertainty of Speaking
01:05:36 • 4min
24
The Importance of Humility
01:09:22 • 4min
25
The Importance of Humility
01:13:35 • 6min