Stripe Hiring and Operating
A founder-focused synthesis of Patrick Collison's talks and interviews on Stripe's hiring bar, recruiting discipline, writing culture, decision systems, delegation, and the CEO's changing job as headcount scales.
3 sections ยท 11 lessons
Course outline
Hiring Bar
- Hire for Replication
- Test the Real Work
- Recruit Before They Want You
- Close with Ownership
- Choose the Seventh Hire
Communication System
- Write for Local Judgment
- Make Culture Explicit
- Process at the Right Time
- Write the Decision System
CEO at Scale
- Stay in Product Detail
- Delegate Without Disappearing
- Decision Speed and Reversibility
- Ten, Hundred, 1,000
- Redesign the CEO Week