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Michael Luo

@azianmike

Product manager @stripe, YC alumni, Vibe coding useinkless.com

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My Asian dad always chastised me for playing video games. But those video games helped me with finger <> eye coordination and I'm now much better at flying his expensive DJI drone than he is. So he always asks me on hikes/cool spots to fly the drone to get the perfect cinematic

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Not enough non-technical people try to be technical. And not enough technical people try non-technical with. Engineers - try out sales/support/operations/marketing. I promise it’ll be a good experience. Non-technical folks - use ChatGPT to teach you about code/how to implement

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A universal human truth is no one understands how to perfectly evaluate risk. Financial risk, health risk, product risk, safety risk, legal risk, strategic risk, etc.

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I’m biased but story time. Before I ever worked at Stripe, I was a Chase banking customer for over 8 years with a checking account. All my direct deposits went there. Then I switched jobs which meant I had no direct deposits for a period of time. Chase hits me with a fee. I

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this is actually such a smart idea. if you have an investigation question, it's unnatural over zoom to pause the whole meeting and just stare. usually it's just added as a follow up item. but if you have a text meeting, it's natural to say "one sec" and spend 3 minutes looking

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When I interviewed at Zillow as a new grad engineer, my final interview was with the CTO. We talked about low level things, like caches, how to optimize CPU instructions by not flushing for if statements, and more. It was a super fun interview! And yes I got an offer. But the

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.Daniel Wood and team really cooked with this one. Originally built for enterprises, now super useful for small/medium sized businesses who have multiple business lines. Fun fact: I have multiple Stripe businesses under my personal business and Organizations makes it so

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Two-thirds of the Forbes AI 50—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, xAI, Perplexity, and Suno—are using Link to offer seamless no-typing checkouts and create faster revenue growth.

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I shared that I got into YC by selling a product that I hadn’t even built yet. Lots of people asked “How the heck did you do that?!” Here’s how (so I don’t have to copy paste multiple times) - Recognize it’s good hygiene to sell before building. You should (almost) always sell

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I just signed up on the waitlist. This looks like a great deal (high yield and high cashback). Anyone at Coinbase want to help me skip the line? :)