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I'm Patrick McKenzie. Your engineering team knows me as patio11. The broad through line of my work is systems thinking applied to businesses. I think the social organization of the Internet and its impact on the world are underestimated by almost everyone, including Silicon Valley.
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Hiya, I’m Patrick McKenzie. I grew up in the US and moved to...
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My name is Patrick McKenzie. I’m a recovering Japanese...
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· Experience: Stripe · Location: Chicago · 186 connections on LinkedIn. View Patrick McKenzie’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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Patrick McKenzie, also known as patio11, is a former Stripe employee and a recovering Japanese salaryman. He runs Kalzumeus Software, a company named after a dragon, and advises at Stripe.
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I had a friend growing up from Puerto Rico. He didn’t love the hard “k” in Patrick, I didn’t love getting called “pato” followed by uproarious laughter, so we split the difference and settled on Patio. I used my favorite number to disambiguate from the other Patios when signing up for CompuServe back in, hmm, 1996. Enough of my professional life ha...
Bingo Card Creatorwas the first product of my bootstrapped software company. It makes custom printable bingo cards for teachers. I started this in 2006 and sold it in 2015. It eventually allowed me to quit my day job in 2010, after having been a nights-and-weekends affair while I was a Japanese salaryman. (I do not specifically recommend attempting...
I fell in love with Twilio at first sight and set out to create a business using its API. That business turned into Appointment Reminder, which makes appointment reminder phone calls, text messages, and emails to the clients of professional services businesses. I ran AR from 2010 through 2016, when I sold it. Think “comfortably supported a small te...
I got fairly decent at making software companies money in the course of building my own. It turns out that this skill is valuable at larger software companies, too. I consulted for a few years on meat-and-potatoes marketing/sales for B2B SaaS companies. It was a really fun learning experience; I haven’t done it actively since roughly 2014. I occasi...
I was the CEO of Starfighter, a company which made games to identify talented programmers. We planned on introducing them to firms wanting to hire developers. The game was the coolest thing I ever built (the final level had you hack a stock exchange to catch an insider trader); the business didn’t quite jell in time. My co-founders Erin and Thomas ...
I worked for six years at Stripe working on growing the GDP of the Internet, mostly through helping startups succeed. I was one of the early team members on Stripe Atlas, which lets founders worldwide start their companies on the U.S.’s legal and financial rails, and is now responsible for tens of percent of all incorporations in Delaware (which, f...
My proudest professional accomplishment is definitely a one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others: I ended up running the U.S.’s shadow vaccine location information infrastructure for a few months during the rollout in early 2021. The team’s efforts likely saved many thousands of lives. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to give us a shot at ...
Patrick McKenzie is a software entrepreneur and advisor who founded Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, and Starfighter. He worked at Stripe for six years and helped launch Stripe Atlas, and recently ran the U.S. vaccine location information infrastructure.
Bits about Money by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of. Get essays a bit faster. I write roughly biweekly on the intersection of tech, financial infrastructure, and systems thinking. It's free. Get a biweekly email. Recent editions of BAM.
My guest today is marketer and software engineer Patrick McKenzie, who writes mostly about software-as-a-service businesses. He currently works for Stripe as a writer and an overall software business expert.
Sep 9, 2016 · My name is Patrick McKenzie. Once upon a time, I was an engineer. I had an idea for some software. Programming it was pretty easy. Marketing it was not, but I really enjoyed the new challenge. At some point over the years, I graduated from being an engineer to running a software business.
