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Engineering manager at @stripe. 🌖 Chief slackmoji officer at @opensrcdefense.
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My wife and I set up the @ImpulseLabs_ stove and cooked some things on it. Thinking through what happens next to every other appliance maker's stove business:
- 2026–2027: Nothing. Impulse grows, but it's not on their radar yet as a meaningful player. Meanwhile, early adopters aren't even considering brands other than Impulse anymore.
- 2028: Denial. Their sales reps start getting questions from normies about why they don't have temperature sensing or power boil. The sales reps try to explain how their inferior equivalents are just as good, leaning heavily on "Do you really want to buy a stove from a startup? We've been in this business for decades. 'Tech guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.'"
- 2029: Uh oh. They realize they actually need legit temperature sensing and power boil, and they need the software in the stove to be really good. But they have zero tech competence, their legacy commitments make it almost impossible to pivot the whole company.
- 2030–2031: The legacy appliance firms release half-baked Impulse competitor stoves … right around the time that Impulse releases its fridge and/or heat pump water heater. Game over.
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bfcm.stripe.com
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Hate it whenever VCs ask me what my moat is and I gotta talk about our partnerships and IP when deep down I know that my moat is that I possess the Mandate of Heaven
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One of my favorite parts about Stripe is how somebody can throw a crazy idea in Slack and then 130 of your favorite coworkers will chip in and build something like this in 2 weeks. And many more dedicated to keeping Stripe smooth for the millions of businesses who are relying on us this weekend. BFCM has only just begun and these businesses have already earned $4B across 50M transactions!
Stripe, live: bfcm.stripe.dev.
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Excerpt from my upcoming book, "Schelling Points In Early 90s Nickelodeon". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_W…
Easy test of a restaurant’s quality: is the butter cold or room temp? Room temp butter is free, and easy logistically. Cold butter is unusable. Butter temp is the Van Halen brown M&M’s of restaurants.
Tbh tow trucks should be designed to encourage this, and we should crowdfund prizes for the coolest jumps. It's time to build.
A 21-year-old Tallahassee woman is lucky to be alive after her vehicle went airborne on a south Georgia highway last week.
Join us during the Eyewitness News at 4 p.m. today to learn more about what happened. @wctv
I enjoy how the way we all got around ironing linen clothes was that circa 2014 J. Crew was like "linen looks even cooler when it's rumpled" and everybody was like "you're right J. Crew, it does", and nobody has ironed a piece of linen ever since.
