Blake McDowall @blakemcdowall
exec talent @Stripe linkedin.com/in/blakemcd/ Sebastopol, CA Joined December 2010-
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How was penicillin able to eliminate 80% of WWII battlefield deaths? Why did nails once make up 0.4% of US GDP? In The Origins of Efficiency, @_brianpotter unpacks how production efficiency happens, and why it is of civilizational importance. Preorder: press.stripe.com/origins-of-eff…
$32B! M&A is back!
Amazing year for Stripe: 38% growth and now durably profitable. And so cool to see mentions of Moxie and Meadow Memorials in the vertical SaaS section: both proudly incorporated and powered by Stripe.
Amazing year for Stripe: 38% growth and now durably profitable. And so cool to see mentions of Moxie and Meadow Memorials in the vertical SaaS section: both proudly incorporated and powered by Stripe.
If you're a guy in your early 20s, buy this book Go into debt if you have to
People make prompting too hard. Most people would benefit from just using good enough prompting techniques. I outline some basic rules, including why “treat AI like an intern” is no longer the advice I would give new AI users. oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-star…
if you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from building dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions
okee, crypto on @stripe is officially back! - accept stablecoins from 150+ countries - buyers pay in usdc (via ethereum, solana, polygon) - you, as a usa business, receive usd - works with checkout, elements, or payment intents (and soon subscriptions) see a live demo:…
okee, crypto on @stripe is officially back! - accept stablecoins from 150+ countries - buyers pay in usdc (via ethereum, solana, polygon) - you, as a usa business, receive usd - works with checkout, elements, or payment intents (and soon subscriptions) see a live demo:…
According to @IDC, Stripe is the world's best online payments platform.
99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations, a @stripe howto: stripe.com/blog/how-strip…
Great hire for $NEE hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/indus…
Block, $SQ, laid off employees today as part of a previously disclosed plan to cut headcount by as much as 10%, per CoinDesk.
Seems investors are still wary of the market. $6tn is a LOT of dry powder for the coming year; I wonder where it will go when rates come down. Stocks? BTC? 💸
Seems investors are still wary of the market. $6tn is a LOT of dry powder for the coming year; I wonder where it will go when rates come down. Stocks? BTC? 💸
I just finished s1 of Scavengers Reign on @StreamOnMax. It’s art as television and the best show I’ve seen in years; it’s scary, beautiful, sad, quiet, gruesome. Watch it even if you don’t like animation.
DON’T BE JUMPY Got this message from a CEO about a candidate: “I don't think they'd be a good fit. We have a pretty hard rule on no jumpy folks and their background looks like a alot of 1.5 years and then gone”. Current and future job seekers: don’t be jumpy. Accomplish…
MM is one of the greatest venture capitalists of all time. A journalist-turned-investor, his expertise is people more than product.
MM is one of the greatest venture capitalists of all time. A journalist-turned-investor, his expertise is people more than product.
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They say this every down market, and the very next cycle proves them wrong. Rich people play the long game and VC is funded by VERY rich people 💸
They say this every down market, and the very next cycle proves them wrong. Rich people play the long game and VC is funded by VERY rich people 💸
Pessimists get to be right, optimists get to be rich
MAKING SUCCESSFUL EXEC HIRES IS HARD In a conversation with a Series A founder, I learnt that they are letting their Sales leader go. This one was particularly painful since this was their second Sales leader, hired after a pretty exacting process. They knew the industry and…
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