April 2024

Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

Aaron Levie on “service as a software”

"Just make a great product. Nothing else matters and nobody cares how neat you run your business if it’s not going anywhere.”

Stripe “conference room” at Fraiche Yoghurt, Emerson Street, Palo Alto

"I prefer things that are better when bought used. There are some things that get worse when they get a little use, and others that get better, and I prefer the latter. Books, houses, furniture, paintings, pottery. Even my cars I bought used.”