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Hello everybody! 👋 I lately sat down with Justin Duke, an engineer at Stripe, and talked about tech, startups and time administration. Together with a full-time job, Justin runs two startups (Buttondown, Spoonbill), manages two weekly newsletters, runs, and volunteers. Come study how he does all of it!

That is the trial run of a podcast concept I’ve had for some time. I would proceed recording comparable interviews sooner or later. You too can take heed to this episode on Spotify.

I requested Justin the next questions:

  1. Justin’s intro
  2. How do you handle time between all of the completely different initiatives?
  3. How has stripe been to date and what are you presently engaged on?
  4. Why is it that most individuals I love work at Stripe?
  5. Ideas about studying the enterprise facet of issues with a purpose to be a greater worker.
  6. Work-life steadiness at Stripe vs Amazon?
  7. Do you are feeling like you’ve got a greater work-life steadiness at Stripe in comparison with Amazon?
  8. Why work on Buttondown and Spoonbill?
  9. What’s spoonbill and Buttondown?
  10. How did you get your first buyer?
  11. Any sources you used to determine the best way to value merchandise?
  12. What’s the target market of Spoonbill?
  13. Why go the Open Startup route and share financials?
  14. The place do you wish to take your startups? When will you cease working fulltime?
  15. No speedy plans to give attention to Buttondown as full time job?
  16. Any main incidents that saved you awake at evening whereas operating your startup?
  17. How do you employ greater than 1 e mail service supplier?
  18. Have your facet initiatives opened any doorways for you?
  19. How many individuals are utilizing Buttondown?
  20. As a hacker, how do you divide time between options you want and options you want?
  21. Any recommendation for individuals planning on operating a facet challenge?
  22. Closing remarks

You’ll be able to observe Justin on Twitter. You probably have any questions/feedback/suggestions please let me know through Twitter, e mail or the remark field under. For those who really feel like I missed an essential query, please let me learn about that as properly! ❤️