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Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)

2025-08-29 · 120 min · 19 entities

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  • → appeared on The Peterman Pod podcast
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    Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)
  • → hosted by Ryan Peterman person
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    Feed author/publisher: Ryan Peterman
  • → discusses Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • → references Build website
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sdsa.ai/build
  • → references developing.dev website
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
  • → references @Ryanlpeterman website
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
  • → references @Davidsingleton website
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@davidsingleton
  • → references @Petermanpod website
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://tiktok.com/@petermanpod
  • → references sfpodcast.studio company
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    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sfpodcast.studio/

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  • mentioned Build website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sdsa.ai/build
  • mentioned developing.dev website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
  • mentioned @Ryanlpeterman website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
  • mentioned @Davidsingleton website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@davidsingleton
  • mentioned @Petermanpod website
    0.45
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://tiktok.com/@petermanpod
  • references Build website
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sdsa.ai/build
  • references developing.dev website
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
  • references @Ryanlpeterman website
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
  • references @Davidsingleton website
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@davidsingleton
  • references @Petermanpod website
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://tiktok.com/@petermanpod

companys 4

  • mentioned Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • mentioned sfpodcast.studio company
    0.45
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sfpodcast.studio/
  • discusses Technology company
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Technology
  • references sfpodcast.studio company
    0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)": https://sfpodcast.studio/

persons 3

  • mentioned Ryan Peterman person
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    Feed author/publisher: Ryan Peterman
  • mentioned Ex-Stripe CTO person
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    Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)
  • hosted by Ryan Peterman person
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    Feed author/publisher: Ryan Peterman

podcasts 1

  • appeared on The Peterman Pod podcast
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    Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)

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  • mentioned CTO concept
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    CTO
Episode description as stored
David Singleton was the CTO at Stripe for 7 years before he left to start /dev/agents. Prior to Stripe, he grew from a junior engineer to a VP at Google. I recently asked him about everything he knows about career growth and being an excellent engineering leader. We discussed how Stripe hired at scale without Leetcode, why he thinks all engineering leaders should write code, the book that impacted his career most and many more topics. Episode Links: • Transcript • Youtube • Apple Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:56) Before Google (00:06:34) Joining Google (00:12:56) Deciding to try management (00:24:15) How to decide on EM vs IC (00:28:58) Biggest gap in managing managers (00:34:21) The difference between VP and Senior EM (00:37:43) How to communicate well (00:46:14) How managers can scale themselves (00:51:17) How to build a new engineering site (01:01:21) What kept him at Google (01:03:57) The story behind joining Stripe (01:12:34) Comparing and contrasting cultures (01:20:55) How to set culture (01:29:25) Is Stripe too reliable? (01:33:48) Hiring at scale without Leetcode (01:38:06) Lessons learned working with Stripe's leadership (01:40:31) Why leave Stripe (01:44:55) How his AI startup plans to compete (01:48:46) Career reflections, regrets, what went well (01:54:03) Top book and habit that impacted his career (01:57:40) Advice for younger self (01:59:04) Outro Where to find David: • If you are a builder: https://sdsa.ai/build • If you are very excited about what they are building and would consider joining his talent dense team, you can email David here: dps@sdsa.ai • X/Twitter: https://x.com/dps • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpsingleton/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@davidsingleton Where to find Ryan: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@petermanpod This episode was produced with the help of SF Podcast Studio: https://www.sfpodcast.studio/