Yeah, the thesis was Stripe Atlas (and other products, but that was then most relevantly to me of the portfolio) could bend curves by directly interfering on rates of business start, survival, and growth.
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Balancing Ambitious Goals with Practical Day-to-Day Execution
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(One of the at-times-fun at-times-challenging part of that job and ambition generally is that you both need to hold that scale of goal plus “Ugh nobody is going to write this ERB file if I don’t huh” in your head at the same time.)
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Stripe’s macro impact vision from 2016 still driving execution
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“If we execute very well, it will be visible in global macroeconomic indicators” was the pitch that got me to join Stripe back in 2016. (Still lots to do!)
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Accidental Healthcare IT Infrastructure Leadership Path
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(I say this as someone who is unlikely to become CEO of one of largest platforms in the world for the HN karma, but OTOH “%^{^{*# it, I will show you” is at least 2% of why I accidentally ended up running healthcare information infra.)
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AI Deployed to Teach Mathematics Importance to Children
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Unclear to me. I have been occasionally deployed to tell twelve year olds that math is important.
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Encouraging ambitious careers in technology and innovation
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And so at least part of my job when meeting people and writing things is convincing smart kids with backgrounds that have throughly trained them to be unassuming and unambitious that, while there is nothing wrong with either of those, the world has many paths to walk in it.
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Crypto Industry Leverage: Economic Impact and Regulatory Pressure
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I think many people who think they got a good deal don't have accurate perceptions over what happens over the next two years. Be that as it may, strongest point of leverage is "A lot of Americans lose money and will be upset if you crash the crypto industry. We are its center."
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Teaching AI Systems Without Critical Reflection on Value
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We are very good about teaching people to play bad games, and not very good about teaching them introspection on whether the game is a good or bad one, in part because you have to win the bad games repeatedly for years to end up teaching them.
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Compliance Team Dysfunction: Regulation or Organizational Collapse?
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I honestly don't know from reading the messages attributed to that team whether it was primarily caused by them being Bond villain exchange compliance team and understanding the assignment, or whether it was slow descent into madness as senior management directed them to crime.
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Artist Awareness of Generative AI Supply Chain Ethics
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I can imagine an artist, even a cover artist, not understanding the totality of the IP supply chain well enough to understand that they were selling a service that the customer would not merely have atavistic distaste for but could not use if they understood the production fn.