Patrick McKenzie

www.VaccinateTheStates.com

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. At the moment, volunteering as CEO at Vaccinate The States. All views my own.

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Tweet Jan 22, 2023

Some days I hate it when the world drops an absolutely-on-my-beat story into my lap when I already had a lot scheduled for a week.

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Tweet Sep 19, 2022

One of the persistent reasons for engineer griping about the recruiting experience is there is a gulf between the median engineer and the median recruiter in… a lot of factors… at companies which have a high bar for engineers.

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Article Jul 7, 2022

The alchemy of deposits

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Tweet May 25, 2022

An interesting form of wealth creation is when a particular kind of project moves from "Basically requires a driven hyper-effective person to make it their singular mission for years to cause this to happen" to "We can deterministically clone stamp t

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Article Mar 2, 2022

Moving money internationally

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Article Dec 17, 2021

The secondary market in gift cards

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Tweet Sep 20, 2021

Unfortunately the way this is usually implemented is “X stamps and we fire you as a customer.” In much of the world, banks are not obligated to continue doing business with people who cause them lots of headaches or cost, and the headaches/cost are

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Article Oct 8, 2020

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like | Kalzumeus Software

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Article Nov 7, 2014

Doing Business In Japan

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Article Jan 23, 2012

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

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Equity for founders

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Bookkeeping and accounting

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