#crazyideas at Stripe | Kenneth Auchenberg
A small cultural mechanism at Stripe — an email alias and Slack channel where anyone could pitch ideas the company should build. Most companies have the tools. Very few have the permission.
Back in my time at Stripe, we had this thing called #crazyideas. It started as an email alias (crazyideas@) and later became a Slack channel (#crazyideas), where anyone in the company could pitch ideas they thought Stripe should build. I haven't seen many other stripes talk about #crazyideas, but I found Greg's 2014 post where he talks about email transparency, and mentions crazyideas@ in passing as "a long-tail list, ideas for things Stripe should try", but to me, that single line captured one of the best cultural mechanisms I've ever seen inside a company, because it enabled bottom-up…
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