I started as an Account Manager and currently have my dream job building @stripepress. It’s so dreamy I didn’t even dream it up myself and I am insanely lucky to have had some very wonderful people who helped me get there. Looking back, these are some highlights.
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January 2015: On an introduction from a mutual friend,
@eekedm talked to me about Stripe and cryptically told me there was something special about it. Was interviewing a few weeks later.Show this thread -
February 2015: While onsite,
@balvarado shared stories about his favorite users. David Moran told me he used to run a bookstore. @clairehughesjohnson walked with me between interviews and on the way replaced an empty water bottle on the water cooler.Show this thread -
March 2015: Got the job. On my second day,
@patrickc introduced himself and asked if I had any feedback about the process interviewing. Went to my first all hands meeting two days later. I felt like I was hanging out in a living room with the smartest people I had ever met.Show this thread -
May 2015: Sold my first novel to Harper Collins. Agreed to write a second one too.
@chughesjohnson pinged to say congrats and offered her time to talk through this exciting potential fork in my career.Show this thread -
July 2015: Remember thinking that Stripe felt like home with
@epang33 and@KellyKMoriarty next to me. I still often think to myself, “what would Kelly and Erica say?”Show this thread -
June 2016:
@eekedm took a chance on me by bringing me onto Stripe’s Businesses Operations team. If I were to make a pie chart of volume of things learned by manager, Eeke would make up a big ol’ slice.Show this thread -
June 2017:
@collision offered me my dream job getting Stripe Press started. I always thought writing and storytelling would be my side thing. Cried when I got home I felt so lucky.Show this thread -
June 2017: Had no idea how to get started.
@patio11 popped into my inbox with a “hello, can I help?” Since we’ve met, I have come up with too many creative answers to that same question, and he has relentlessly delivered the warmest, most insightful guidance. (Thank you!)Show this thread -
2018: Started in a whirlwind of paper samples and manuscript versions and ended with four Stripe Press books out in the world. Had
@patrickc,@tyler_thompson,@sashadem, and so many others working so hard, cheering like crazy, and keeping me going.Show this thread -
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