Kelly Sims @kellylsims Twitter profile

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

3 years

Next week I’m joining @Twitter to run global communications. I’m incredibly excited to move the ball forward with @jack and @leslieberland —and positively champing at the bit to work with the indomitable @TwitterComms team. A bit on my reasoning to join below. 1/4

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3 years

My 4-year-old’s preschool has an upcoming session entitled: “The Essentials of Executive Functioning: Building the Skills to Flourish.” Um.

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Day 1 at @Twitter is in the books! Grateful to the team for such a wonderful welcome. Anyone have any Zyrtec? #LoveWhereYouWork #OneTeam

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1 year

Such glorious, unabashed ambition from a 50 year old company. It is so impressive. “We made them dance” is epic.

Ethan Caballero is busy

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1 year

"This new Bing will make Google come out and dance, and I want people to know that we made them dance." - @SatyaNadella

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6 months

The power-up from working in a top 1% talent environment is incalculable. I was deprogrammed and reprogrammed at age 33 at Stripe, and am eternally grateful. Artists like to live in artist colonies. If you aim to be the best, find the people who inspire and push you.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

Some Personal News that I obviously wrote about on Medium: later this year, I’ll be stepping down from my role at Stripe

The Next 26 Miles

Back in 2013 I got a call from a journalist who excitedly told me that he’d met the smartest people in Silicon Valley.

medium.com

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Kelly Sims

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6 months

This company is going to run through walls now. So happy for everyone!

Greg Brockman

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we are so back

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

I see a new Twitter emerging, and I can’t wait to pick up a shovel. If you want to work on one of the most impactful shifts of our time, with a world-class comms team, and have a ton of fun doing it, DMs 👏 are 👏 open👏. Let’s go!

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Kelly Sims

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7 years

Stripe is launching an engineering magazine. @karaswisher calls it "the New Yorker for geeks."

Increment: Planning

This issue examines the ever-evolving practices of software planning—and how we can craft plans that enrich communication, alignment, and impact on engineering teams.

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Kara Swisher

@karaswisher

7 years

Susan Fowler to lead Stripe’s new engineering tips pub

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Kelly Sims

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6 years

We can sit by and let the #HousingCrisis crisis erode our economy and displace underrepresented groups. Or we can act. Proud @stripe is doing the latter.

California Today: A Tech Company Wades Into Housing Politics (Published 2018)

Thursday: Stripe pledges $1 million to California Yimby, the first California death in the lettuce E. coli outbreak, and a video game takes over the real world.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

Lots of expansion planned for @stripe this year. And lots of global hiring! @ellenhuet 's take here:

Globalization Helped Make Stripe a $23 Billion Company. Here’s What Comes Next

The chief of the world’s most valuable payments startup confronts an increasingly fractured world economy.

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4 years

@collision You’re really earning your stripes with this one!

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5 years

Not even the SFFD can extinguish @chughesjohnson 's dedication to @stripe .

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Kelly Sims

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2 years

In my career I’ve seen talent density and a shared purpose produce magic. Once you experience it, it haunts until you find it again. That’s why I am thrilled to be joining @thrivecapital , to help the most ambitious companies find their footing, their voice, their edge. Let’s go!

Joshua Kushner

@JoshuaKushner

2 years

Welcoming Kelly Sims to Thrive @kellylsims

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

For "more tenured" people in their careers I highly recommend reverse mentoring. I learn more from my mentees than one might expect.

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3 years

Twitter is an important actor as we think about the shifts created by decentralization. They (we?!) are building a new ecosystem across news and facts, conversation and healthy debate, and now, helping people get paid (my personal ❤️). 3/4

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

A year ago today my daughter and I fought for life as the placenta giving her oxygen tore away unexpectedly. Grateful to be here. And as @orlamchenry put it, happy birthday you tiny attempted murderer. ❤️

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2 years

My draft tweets right now contain some of my very best work.

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

1 month

Seeing Grown Up Stripe gives me goosebumps every time. 🥹

edwin

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📍Moscone We’re getting ready to announce our largest set of updates to @Stripe on Weds. And on Thurs, @collision will show my personal favorite upcoming product in the Future of payments keynote. See you at Sessions!

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6 months

♥️

Brad Lightcap

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6 months

OpenAI is nothing without its people

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3 years

Day 4: Asked in a meeting what type of dinosaur I'd be. LOVE. THIS. TEAM.

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6 years

This is perhaps the best and most thorough story ever written about @stripe . Thanks for all the globetrotting to make it happen @lws_clrk

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

In case you've been living under a rock @stripe has been *slaying*. The Generalist published a great primer that is worth the long read. "All told, Stripe’s brand is a masterpiece of taste and soft power, earned through hard work and savvy." Be still my ❤️

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Kelly Sims

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7 years

This weekend is my due date, bday & 4 yr anniversary at @stripe . Thank you to the sweetest team for the sweetest gift, @jenisicecreams ! ❤️👶🎉

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

3 years

News flash startups are hard.

Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos

3 years

Nothing in here seems particularly damning (60 hour workweeks when a huge deal was closing, Slack messages sent at night). This might be what VCpills me

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6 years

Mischievous little @stripe in training 💚

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Kelly Sims

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2 months

. @patrickc and @collision get a lot of credit for being amazing culture arbiters. They should get more.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

In fairness I did warn you that the @stripe mafia was becoming a thing. Congratulations @ludwig and team!

Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill | TechCrunch

Sam Altman, Index Ventures back a startup taking on Slack.

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

We’re in the throes of a redistribution and the decentralization of...everything. Much of this is good; for the most part, irrespective of where you are in the world you can have a voice that is heard, a community where you belong, a following, meaningful work. 2/4

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Kelly Sims

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7 years

. @stripe is "drawn by places that the rest of the world tends to underestimate" via @valleyhack + @BW

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3 years

Can someone make a competitor to Workday asap pls thank you.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

. @nytimes ’ inability to recognize me on mobile coming from Twitter makes me murderous. This is not a new problem, but honestly, we can figure this out. How much more can we pay you to figure this out?

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2 years

My husband made me homemade ice cream for dinner. Time to renew vows.

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7 months

Oh boy. I really missed the full @romainhuet experience. 😍

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

2 years

I am grateful for the people in my life who tell me the truth. It’s easy to tell people what they want to hear and “be nice.” Your real friends tell you the stuff you don’t want to hear. ❤️

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Having taste is an under appreciated business attribute.

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

19 days

This is the new hot company to join. Engineers from SpaceX, Anduril, Tesla, Apple tackling the energy grid in Texas (to start).

Ashlee Vance

@ashleevance

19 days

Exclusive today - Base Power aims to shake up the energy biz in Texas

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Kelly Sims

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4 years

At this point I feel like we should just strike the phrase, “how are you” from daily life. Telling the truth is awkward and lying becomes draining.

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

5 years

Congratulations @anuraggoel ! The Stripe mafia is becoming a thing.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

5 years

And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019 is… Render by @romaindillet

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When I was first introduced to @collision and @patrickc in 2013 I had no idea that @Stripe would become so meaningful -- mostly to me, but also as a rising force for global economic access in the world.

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7 years

Meet the guy behind almost every important deal @stripe has ever done. Happy to see this profile of @balvarado

$9 billion Stripe has a master plan to take over the world — or at least, open it up for business

$9 billion startup Stripe is going global so it can keep its edge.

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2 years

NYC is showing off this morning. 😍

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this (jk I do), but if you lie to your comms people they can't do their jobs very well.

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2 years

Being around good people who are also ambitious is worth more than the best salaries in tech. ❤️

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2 years

@sarthakgh Mm. Actual footage of Stripe comms team

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

Twitter is moving fast these days! It takes a special leadership team to set the pace. That is particularly true on the corporate and financial communications side of the house.

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Kelly Sims

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6 years

It's my first #TacoTuesday at @stripe since being back from maternity leave. I'm never having another child.

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1 year

Thank you GPT-4 for breaking the banking doom scroll.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

Guess what I’m doing tonight?

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Kelly Sims

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8 years

Hi! I'm here for the @stripe @atlas meeting (?!!!!)

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

One of the greatest gifts of working at @stripe : warm, driven, supportive, brilliant friends who dazzle you long after they/you move on to new endeavors.❤️

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

How is every toddler parent not an alcoholic?

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

Reminder that the most interesting job in the world is open right now. Come join!

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

6 months

This is amazing. Tens years ago Black Friday used to be a real all hands on deck kind of day. Look at all them nines! Great job team @stripe !

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

6 months

Stripe, live: .

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2 years

Free advice: don’t start a podcast.

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Kelly Sims

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3 years

I’m over the moon to welcome a new head of corp communications. @ohthatlaura is an unflappable pacesetter, an exceptional human being, and is basically always in an IR state of mind (Forgive me! She’s based in NY, I had to). Welcome to the flock, Laura!

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

Already missing this team, after my last ever Commsvergence 🥰

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3 years

Climate change is the problem of our generation. Launching today, @watershed is making it easier for businesses to bend the carbon curve — and fast. It also happens to be comprised of a phenomenal group of humans. ❤️

How Measuring and Reducing Emissions Has Become Its Own Business

For companies with ambitious climate goals, a new startup assesses distant corporate impacts and offers fixes.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

3 months

. @lachygroom is starting a company with a group of AI and robotics geniuses. I dunno why they didn't call themselves the Avengers, but here we are. ♥️

Lachy Groom

@lachygroom

3 months

I'm starting a company with @brian_ichter , @chelseabfinn , @svlevine , @hausman_k , @QuanVng , and @SurajNair_1 called Physical Intelligence (π.com!). We're bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

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3 years

Ahem.

Support

@Support

3 years

Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. We prepare for these moments, but today things didn’t go exactly as planned. Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result. This has been fixed. Sorry about that! 💙

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8 years

At @stripe we've launched 2 countries in 2 weeks + allowed Japanese businesses to sell to anyone in 130 currencies for the first time today.

Stripe

@stripe

8 years

Stripe is now available for all businesses in Japan:

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@kellylsims

4 years

@AriFleischer Except one is a political campaign slogan and one is a human rights issue...

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7 years

Just over 4 yrs ago, @valleyhack introduced me to a company he thought might turn out to be a thing some day. Fast forward to today....

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4 years

PSA to tech CEOs on Twitter: we can actually see your likes! Try harder to hide your basic-ness.

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4 years

Today I said to my husband, “Man, it’ll be super exciting when our garlic oil arrives” and meant it with every fiber of my being. #2020

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3 years

Joined a Space spontaneously for the first time today (I know, I know), and it's frickin magical(tm).

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3 years

Found on trail. MPK PR strategy.

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Kelly Sims

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5 years

I'll take this moment to remind you all that @stripe is hiring!

Harry Stebbings

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5 years

It's awards season @saastr & proud to say @chughesjohnson @stripe is the most downloaded episode of 2018 on decision-making processes, how to hire quality at scale & when and what you need in a potential COO. Thanks to @eladgil @htaneja @collision for Qs!

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2 years

I am attending a kindergarten virtual tour rn, and they're talking about "Bizworld," an event where the kids create their own company and "visit venture capitalists." I kid you not.

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2 years

After we fix climate change and misinfo can we work on airplane wifi?

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

3 years

Is there a Community yet for people who eat cake for lunch? Need to find my people.

Communities

@HiCommunities

3 years

imagine an alternate timeline where everyone just gets you say hi to Communities—the place to connect with people who Tweet like you. testing now on iOS and web, Android soon!

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I've not been to in a while. It's an absolute marvel. 🤩

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2 years

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who know they can reshape the universe, and those who dare not even think about it. Finding people in the first camp and learning their ways changes your life. ❤️

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5 years

I've been in Dublin for 3 hours and already someone told me that "there are too many people building apps" and that kids don't need much parenting and they turn out just fine. Sanity. I have found you.

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I realize no one goes to WNBA games and that’s a problem, but the number of supremely mediocre people I have encountered in my own career who make way more money than Caitlin Clark is wild.

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2 years

Deepest thanks to the #reporters on the ground covering the crisis in Ukraine. I don’t know how you’re holding it together. But I’m grateful.

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4 years

Yet another data point. Congratulations to the team at @assembledhq !

Ingrid

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4 years

"Stripe mafia" is becoming a thing, as is Stripe earmarking increasing amts of money to invest in startups. This one works in a fairly nascent niche in a v. established field: using tech to help teams work more efficiently (here, customer support is the target).

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6 years

Interested in working on the comms team at @Stripe ? We're hiring for corp comms in London.

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4 years

Dear French People: thank you for inventing pot de creme! I have an idea for an adaptation. I call it vat de creme. We take the same delicious chocolate pudding and put it in a jar 100x larger. American ingenuity, amirite?

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2 years

Proud of the team @watershed today. The first climate software unicorn! "The start-up’s tool will one day become as fundamental as Amazon is in cloud computing or SAP is in accounting, Mr. Moritz told DealBook."

Two Silicon Valley stalwarts team up in the fast-growing climate tech sector. (Published 2022)

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly Sims

@kellylsims

3 years

From follows into fans, and fans into funds. Today Tips is launching globally on iOS to help creators get paid for their content. And for all you crypto fans out there, add your Lightning wallet to get started! 🚀⚡️

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"Our concern is that the people who have historically had the best access continue to have the best access. @stripe is looking to upend that." -- @collision

Bloomberg Technology

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The tech industry has to be a place where anyone of any background can thrive, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison says

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2 years

YES YES YES @packyM : "It’s unbelievable that a private citizen is able to marshall government-scale resources and tweet about it all in real-time. This war is going to be a wake up call. Instead of mocking Elon, we need leaders who will encourage a thousand more Elons."

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6 years

. @Stripe is now publishing books. First up, @eladgil 's High Growth Handbook. Read more at

Patrick Collison

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Stripe Press:

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In my years at @stripe there have only been a few times I've been in the office before 6am. One day was when we launched @atlas . Another is today. ❤️

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1 year

My god I love New York.

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2 months

The number of my co-workers up and at ‘em at 5am is bizarrely comforting.

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2 years

@ashleymayer I knew you'd like it.

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2 years

@nataliemiyake I’m so so sorry to hear you’ve been going through this. I had six miscarriages and multiple rounds of IVF myself (you know, while also trying to work at a startup and be a functioning human). It’s beyond exhausting. Here if ever you need! ❤️

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5 years

My 2 year old just ate his first taco and I’m praising him like he won a Pulitzer. Good with it.

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6 years

Face ID: not ready for the end of days.

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3 years

Among the most illogical things about me: I don't think I'll ever *not* be offended by "here's my Calendly."

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6 years

You know you’re at @Stripe when there are several conversations going on around you and none of them are in english.

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5 years

I want all my seats to be heated seats. The 21st century is such a disappointment.

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Those who have been a part of something special would agree that there is "a way of operating or working together that the world doesn't understand -- and it reinforces the secret." Strong operating principles and cult-ure change the game.

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Kelly Sims

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6 years

. @CarolineHydeTV is super helpful (and smart and gracious). Great seeing you today!

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2 years

Normalize cursing in meetings! #thanksjoebiden

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Kelly Sims

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6 years

The choice is *not* between fixing homelessness through Prop C and not fixing it at all. We're happy to pay higher taxes for a plan that will work, and support Mayor Breed in setting that course.

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6 years

Stripe’s position on Proposition C:

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