In my experience, Stripe is full of very smart, interesting people, but most of what's described here is an aspirational view of how the current executives think product should work at Stripe. That's OK, in some sense any view of the "self" is going to be aspirational, but it seems naive/koolaidy to believe that all of the following things can be true at the same time (these are all quotes from the article):

- "it’s an incredibly deep-thinking culture. It’s a written culture really focused on getting to the right answer"

- "The company is especially dedicated to moving very, very fast."

- "deep thinking and speed are combined with a substantial amount of user focus and user empathy."

- "We talk a lot about building multi-decade abstractions."

- "Quick-thinking, quick-acting people do really well here."

- "It’s craftsmanship and a huge amount of dedication to getting all of the details right."

- "There is just the feeling that it should all be exceptional. We should push for an extreme quality bar on all of the fronts."

This seems like a pretty standard fluff piece that's aimed at recruiting PMs who want to identify as near-super-human talent. Stripe is a fantastic place to work but this kind of communication does them and their employees a disservice -- that said I'm not a recruiter and can't say what kind of tactics work best for finding PMs.