1/12 After ~6 years, it’s time for me to leave Stripe and start my own journey. There was a weighty responsibility ensuring Stripe Ireland was successful, but being Site Lead for much of my tenure turned out to be the greatest of privileges

2/12 Creating an environment to foster the right culture was my most important role. Early on, operational decisions were deliberate and in line with Stripe’s operating principles resulting in the creation of norms by which all future hires would naturally assume

3/12 The relationship between the “Dublin Hub” and “In Country” was critical to our growth. My experience of past multinationals made for great training grounds and I’m proud that Stripe has some of the best cross EMEA team relationships in the industry

4/12 Our office processes needed to be completely redefined when our headcount grew roughly by the power of three. 3—>10—>30—>100—>300. How you share information between three people is fundamentally different to sharing between ten

5/12 six of the first twelve hires in Dublin already held senior roles in other organisations, but were rolling up their sleeves to join Stripe as ICs and build out new functions. This gave confidence to HQ and multiple international functions were soon led from Dublin