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Essays on building products, breaking down companies, and what I've learned shipping software.

On Tech Recruiting

Or how to maximize your odds of working on interesting problems with great people

Super leverage in the Age of AI

How Strava became the default training log for serious athletes

From containerization pioneer to developer platform: Docker's long road to a business model that worked.

Why Stripe keeps winning despite being one of the most competed-against companies in fintech.

The surprising rise of a prayer app, and what it reveals about faith as a product category.

Perplexity's bet that search can be rebuilt around answers instead of links, and what stands in the way.

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