John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Okay.
So rough numbers, you know, Microsoft is 200,000 people.
Uh Stripe is 10,000 people.
Uh, maybe there's someone who's listening to this who runs a company that's 500 people or something like that.
A lot of the things that we do are probably fairly scale-independent, where you're trying to make sure that you're talking to customers, you're holding a leadership offsite, we're looking at the numbers for 26, we want the revenues to be a bit higher and the cost to be higher.
a bit lower.
You know, there's a lot of activities in companies that are kind of the same, uh, regardless of the s the um the size.
That said, there's also probably things that only show up at the uh you know 200,000 person um uh you know city-state um uh uh s size that you know I wouldn't be aware of at the 10,000 uh person size.
What effects only show up when you're that big?
Am I understanding you correctly that maybe at stripe scale or at a smaller scale, you can still reason about the product as a product and know
Everything that you're shipping and everything.
But I also think founders are unique in that sense.
Last question as um we're running up against time as we um
As we talk about
Uh
Cultures in building them.
What's going on in the water in uh Hyderabad per uh you know the school that you went to uh also Shantanu went there, A.
J.
Banga went there, a bunch of the good chess players are uh similarly from there and southern India more broadly and things like that.
But do you have any theory on the uh the local outperformance?
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