I’m hiring an NYC-based Managing Editor for @stripepress. The ideal person for this role has substantial editorial experience at a publishing imprint or another publication and is fluent in our universe of ideas, but ideally isn’t my (or our) ideological twin. Stripe Press is a small team with an unusual amount of autonomy. Right now we’re obsessively focused on the future: expanding our catalogue, rethinking our assumptions about the kinds of books we publish (fiction!?), and thinking about how to connect our readers w/ one another beyond the pop-ups we’ve been hosting since 2022. Hoping to meet a lot of brilliant people who love books and are excited about building a world-class publishing institution:

I think London pop-ups are just going to have to be a yearly occurrence from now on. Amazing day—thank you to the hundreds of you who came to hang out! (Particularly to the gaggle of babies in the corner who came dangerously close to unionizing)❣️🤭📚

Stripe Press’s newest author is in the tiny handful of people with the strongest claim to being New York’s modern power broker: Mary Ann Tighe, CEO of CBRE’s New York Tri-State region. Mary Ann’s fingerprints are all over Manhattan. Since becoming CEO in 2002 she’s brokered more than 133 million square feet of commercial real estate transactions. A (very small) selection of her deals: She brought Condé Nast to 4 Times Square, and at the time it was the first new office building constructed in New York in a decade(!). She represented the NYT in the development of its new headquarters on Eighth Ave. She brought Coach in as the first Hudson Yards tenant. For 1199SEIU, one of the country’s largest healthcare workers’ unions, she helped engineer a 580,000-square-foot headquarters deal projected to save the union and its benefit funds roughly $400 million over 30 years. And perhaps most meaningfully, Mary Ann was instrumental in rebuilding the World Trade Center, including bringing Condé Nast to One World Trade, and, more than two decades later, securing American Express for roughly 2 million square feet at 2 World Trade Center (broke ground ~ two months ago!). Mary Ann’s book (tentatively titled BUILDING NEW YORK) traces the stories of the deals themselves, but also the personalities who’ve made modern New York, from mayors, to CEOs, to the Vatican—whose approval she needed to broker the air rights for St. Patrick’s Cathedral! It’s rare to get such a candid view into how the real estate sausage gets made, especially at Mary Ann’s level. We can’t wait to bring you her book.

Part of the long tail of the asinine Mangione spectacle is that now when you see a headline like this, you can predict what the comments will be. I also think it’s a choice to describe Erin as a BoA VP, and not, as she was, a new mom who’d just returned from maternity leave.

We've finally learned our lesson and printed more advanced copies this time 🙂‍↕️ If you're a founder, sales leader, or like me, are just weirdly attached to our galley design, shoot us a note stripepress@stripe.com. I have ~30 copies up for grabs!

Newest addition to our turpentine collection is one that we've been asked about for years: a guide to building a robust sales organization. Built to Grow, by the inimitable @she_travels, available for preorder now, & out October 13th in all formats:

I’m starting a new show with @Quartr_App. It’s called Ordinary Business, and somehow I’m the host. I met @haris_chc and @oliverhamrin here earlier this year through a shared interest in old annual reports, business history, and design. They were looking for someone to make a show. I was looking for my next project, and some new collaborators. I didn’t know they’d be in Sweden. Here’s the first episode.

I’m fascinated by the auto/biographies of great Asian founders for a v particular reason: they often double as histories of their countries’ economic development. Chung Ju-yung’s autobiography might be my favorite so far (also cool bc I knew nothing about Hyundai). Highly recommend.

thinking about one of the silliest lines here, that this "saves you time writing and allows you to focus on your ideas", which is similar to something i've heard often now, that LLMs allow people who are bad at writing to express themselves. but (and i'm sure this is not a rare experience) it's happened many times to me that i have an idea that seems brilliant at first but as i write it down i realize it's actually quite simplistic and unoriginal. or, just as often, that as i write it (and in the process examine it, test it, think through it, flesh it out) it actually becomes a worthwhile idea and not just a passing fragment of a thought i mean - even the people who created these technologies and believe most in their potential write extensively: famously, dario amodei is always writing long documents to explain his thinking (and has been doing so since the early days of OAI). this is not to say that if you use LLMs to write your ideas have no value (though I am inclined to doubt they do). rather I believe that if you don't write them down yourself you'll never know what their value is

Just landed in Sydney w/ @_theplaza! Very excited for Stripe Tour Sydney & this meetup. I also have a few copies of our next book that I’d love to offer to some startups that could use a GTM handbook 🤭

Cambridge and the other universities bear huge responsibility here. Jason Arday never should have been credentialed, hired, and elevated. And after everything was revealed (with very little help from them) those same institutions more or less abandoned him. Horrific.

In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.” Our lives and homes are filled with things that once inspired similar awe. I tried to collect those feelings, in quotes like the one above, from people for whom what is now ordinary was brand new. A friar who met the inventor of eyeglasses, a founding father on the new smallpox vaccine, a woman in Iowa on her family’s first indoor bathroom. To look at a modern apartment through their eyes: