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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: belief
4 May 2023 Lenny's Podcast Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
“A strong mission and a mission that draws people in that are incredible and people may be hearing that and be like, yeah, yo, sure. But in my experience, having invested in a bunch of companies and working with a lot of founders, there's such a dichotomy between how hard it is for companies to hire when they don't have a mission people really care about versus a mission that's really meaningful.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- belief
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- 4 May 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…That's right. So just to summarize what you shared, which I was just writing as you were talking about the things that essentially help Stripe build this incredible team. A strong mission and a mission that draws people in that are incredible and people may be hearing that and be like, yeah, yo, sure. But in my experience, having invested in a bunch of companies and working with a lot of founders, there's such a dichotomy between how hard it is for companies to hire when they don't have a mission people really care about versus a mission that's really meaningful. So there's something so powerful there and so it's 100%, I could see how that works so well. And then the other things you mentioned, patients, personal connections between the hiring manager and the people they're hiring. And I see that on Twitter, a lot of PMs are just doing things, like basically it's like they're writing on a little startup on Twitter like Jeff Weinstein, Yeah, so,…
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