Max Stoiber
Some things about me:
- Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
- Previously Director of Engineering at Shopify
- Founded two companies
- Created open source projects with 100k+ total stars
- Invest in early-stage startups
- Into coffee, skiing, and music
- Grew up in Vienna, Austria
- Live in San Francisco
Some things I believe:
- What you tolerate becomes the standard
- Focus on your high performers
- When there is doubt, there is no doubt
- Set expectations early and often
- Default to open
- 95th percentile isn't that good
- Speed wins
- There is no speed limit
- Pressure is a privilege
- Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
- Scope down and ship
- Save polish for where it matters
- Start with why
- The right question is half the answer
- Be aggressively intolerant of vague thinking
- Fall in love with the problem, not the solution
- Feelings are data
- People do things for good reasons
- Every judgement is a self portrait
- Feelings come from expectations
- Freedom with, not freedom from
- Nervousness is excitement without breath
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