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Join the right company early, learn how generational businesses are built, then invest in the next generation.
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I look for Stripe-like companies: infrastructure businesses with strong network effects.
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Employee number 30 at a company worth $65 billion. The lesson: join rockets, not safe bets.
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Stripe taught me what a generational company looks like from the inside. Now I look for that pattern everywhere.
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Operational experience at a company like Stripe provides pattern recognition that pure financial investors can't match.