Max Levchin
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Podcast Appearances
We're going to make sure that it actually stands the test of time. Finding out of the idea was really important, but If you believe that ideas speak for themselves so much that it can be garbage, you will end up with a collection of garbage and generation of garbage software. And you just have to know when the moment is to say, actually, that really does have traction.
We're going to make sure that it actually stands the test of time. Finding out of the idea was really important, but If you believe that ideas speak for themselves so much that it can be garbage, you will end up with a collection of garbage and generation of garbage software. And you just have to know when the moment is to say, actually, that really does have traction.
We're going to make sure that it actually stands the test of time. Finding out of the idea was really important, but If you believe that ideas speak for themselves so much that it can be garbage, you will end up with a collection of garbage and generation of garbage software. And you just have to know when the moment is to say, actually, that really does have traction.
Someone will build a better version of this if I don't do it myself. And that's what you have to do now.
Someone will build a better version of this if I don't do it myself. And that's what you have to do now.
Someone will build a better version of this if I don't do it myself. And that's what you have to do now.
It's one of the most important. It's very rare that I cannot think of more than like fewer than a handful of companies who had gotten to huge success, huge scale by just kind of rolling along. I'm sure I don't know the inside story. And what seems to me like rolling along is probably not rolling along. In fact, they were probably feeling like it's breakneck pace on the inside.
It's one of the most important. It's very rare that I cannot think of more than like fewer than a handful of companies who had gotten to huge success, huge scale by just kind of rolling along. I'm sure I don't know the inside story. And what seems to me like rolling along is probably not rolling along. In fact, they were probably feeling like it's breakneck pace on the inside.
It's one of the most important. It's very rare that I cannot think of more than like fewer than a handful of companies who had gotten to huge success, huge scale by just kind of rolling along. I'm sure I don't know the inside story. And what seems to me like rolling along is probably not rolling along. In fact, they were probably feeling like it's breakneck pace on the inside.
They just didn't show it very well. There's some founders and some CEOs who have the duck foot property where they're like placid above water and the feet are going at crazy pace below water. I am not one of those. You can always tell if I'm trying to go faster, you know, from the feet up.
They just didn't show it very well. There's some founders and some CEOs who have the duck foot property where they're like placid above water and the feet are going at crazy pace below water. I am not one of those. You can always tell if I'm trying to go faster, you know, from the feet up.
They just didn't show it very well. There's some founders and some CEOs who have the duck foot property where they're like placid above water and the feet are going at crazy pace below water. I am not one of those. You can always tell if I'm trying to go faster, you know, from the feet up.
But there are people who are capable of maintaining composure and maybe their teams are composing themselves to.
But there are people who are capable of maintaining composure and maybe their teams are composing themselves to.
But there are people who are capable of maintaining composure and maybe their teams are composing themselves to.
So it feeds back into that notion of postmortems, right? If you have a depository and we literally have a postmortem depot where people can go and review every major or minor thing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it, it's really valuable. We have a library of case studies that are internal to the company saying, well, that was a screw up. the great outage of XYZ.
So it feeds back into that notion of postmortems, right? If you have a depository and we literally have a postmortem depot where people can go and review every major or minor thing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it, it's really valuable. We have a library of case studies that are internal to the company saying, well, that was a screw up. the great outage of XYZ.
So it feeds back into that notion of postmortems, right? If you have a depository and we literally have a postmortem depot where people can go and review every major or minor thing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it, it's really valuable. We have a library of case studies that are internal to the company saying, well, that was a screw up. the great outage of XYZ.
What happened there? Oh, we managed to overload the back end with the front end and so on. So it's just very valuable to have these things not in a form of oral tradition, but like written down.
What happened there? Oh, we managed to overload the back end with the front end and so on. So it's just very valuable to have these things not in a form of oral tradition, but like written down.