Finn Lowden

1/ You hired the wrong designer. I know because I’ve lived every angle of this: early Uber, Stripe, Shopify, founding my own startup, managing big design teams. Most bad hires aren’t bad designers. They’re just the wrong fit for the stage. Here’s the framework I use to get it right. 🧵

Stablecoins are spreading the dollar faster than any financial tech in history. And Ethereum is becoming the financial backbone. For Ethereum’s 10th birthday, we’re publishing our updated @ElectricCapital ETH thesis: Remaking the Case for ETH 🧵 1/

1/ I’ve designed at Stripe, Uber, and Shopify – where pitch and vision work took entire teams days to pull together. Now, I do it alone in under 30 minutes. No team. No wasted time. Just me, AI, and a system that turns ideas into working prototypes. Here’s the guide 👇

We are delighted to release the 6th annual @ElectricCapital Developer Report! We analyzed a record 902M code commits across 1.7M repos thanks to the 829 people who contributed to making this report since inception. How did 2024 in crypto look in data? Long thread below 👇🏽

Firing is hard. But if you have a team member who’s consistently underperforming… It's best for everyone to let them go. Here are 3 steps I tell every founder to go through when firing: (To fire cleanly, fairly, and without making the same hiring error again)

I spend 10+ hrs a week solving founder's problems. One thing they all ask me: “How do I have hard conversations with my employees?” So I put together my top advice into a handy sheet! If you have a performance issue, it’s time to give feedback. How to have hard conversations: