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'm best known for being at the intersection of marketing and engineering, especially in SaaS businesses. I think the social organization of the Internet and its impact on the world are underestimated by almost everyone, including Silicon Valley. My weird hobbies include credit reporting, fintech (especially discount brokerages), and cryptocurrency skepticism.
My self-assigned score is median value created for software people (engineers & entrepreneurs, principally) times number of software people impacted. Most is due to telling engineers to Charge More™ and accelerating software startups through my public work. I love talking to software people.
I am a tiny angel investor. I've lived my entire adult life in Japan.
These days I’m working at Stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions expressed on this site are my own.
I spent about ten years running small software companies.
There exists an idiom called “dropping a hash” which is widely understood in the security community and not widely understood elsewhere. Somewhat surprisingly, there does not appear to be a canonical explanation. I have dropped hashes before and wrote this up to explain the significance of it to non-specialists.