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David Singleton

Founder @ Accrual

Founded Accrual after 7 years as Stripe CTO. Previously engineering leader at Google.

β€œBuilding a culture of excellence, covering product design, team leadership, and career development.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
AccrualFounder2024-present
StripeChief Technology Officer2017-2024
GoogleVP of Engineering (Android Wear, Google Fit, Mobile Search)2006-2017
SymbianSoftware Developer / Project Lead~2003-2006

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β€œYeah, great question. Before I talk about this one operating principle, let me just set a little bit of context of,”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

22:25
β€œThinking about those kind of flows is what led us to build Link, which is our product for making one click checkout available. And that has had a tremendous impact both on convenience for customers of...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

29:49
β€œSo meticulousness plays out with impact in so many different ways at Stripe and I enjoy working that way in many different areas.”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

32:11
β€œYeah, great question. So it's a practice that is quite valuable generically. There are many places where you can apply friction logging in order to really shine a light on what is the most effective p...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

32:50
β€œSo yeah, those are some of the techniques that Shreyas might have been thinking of.”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

39:58
β€œI tell them this is an important part of the process. Please don't treat me any different to anyone else. And obviously to make this work well you have to set the expectation that you're not going to ...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

49:55
β€œYeah, I'll speak from personal experience. I love writing code. I really love writing code. It's pretty much what I do for fun. I also love writing code with Copilot, because as I said, it means that ...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

1:09:07
β€œI'm always working hard to delegate sometimes a little bit more than I'm comfortable with, because that's the only way to really operate at significant scale. I think something else, and sorry, this i...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

1:12:02
β€œThere are some tasks that I do that are maybe not the most important thing, but I know that I get a lot of joy and energy from them, and then that carries over into the other stuff that also needs to ...”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

1:14:17
β€œWe bring it back up for synthesis, and then back down for everyone to really distribute with a lot of context within their orgs. We find that at our current scale, very, very effective.”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

1:18:13
β€œDo you have any feedback? Genuinely, I'd love to hear your Stripe feedback.”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

1:18:32
β€œThat's right, that's right. It has a ton of very practical advice, so I recommend that one a lot.”
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

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