Mikkel Lauritzen

PM @YouLendEurope. Tweeting about serverless, finance, tech, and more... Prev: software dev, first non-tech hire @aula_education, consulting @McKinsey.

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@jonclemonsjp @levelsio @stripe Interesting! What makes the business checking accounts painful now? Is it only the initial setup or also ongoing pain/problems?

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@d_saltares Good luck David! 🔥💪

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

Come work with me in London as a PM or APM to develop our platform which helps partners incl. Shopify, eBay, and Paymentsense offer flexible financing products to their merchants🚀

More info about the opportunities:
- APM: https://t.co/OvKmI8UJsM
- PM: https://t.co/izltylM6Rn

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

Excellent *financial* analysis of using *commoditized* cloud infrastructure (vanilla servers). It misses: i) the (long-term devastating) cultural cost of recruiting world-class engineers to do undifferentiated heavy lifting; ii) it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity infra. 1/n

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

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[80,000 Hours @80000Hours]

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Check out what's new, then send us questions and feedback and in the thread.

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[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@erd_xyz 🔥

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

Exciting times - proud to be partnering with eBay to "take on the banks" and provide flexible cash advance financing to their business sellers!

[FT Technology News @fttechnews]

Ebay takes on banks and Paypal with loans to businesses https://t.co/MDpFPojwyk

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@sjwhitworth @scottymeuk Recently set up readme for our API docs. Not quite Stripe-level polish, but pretty great and strong features out of the box (algolia search, users w API keys,..)

We don’t use all the bells and whistles but if you want to see it in action our docs are at https://t.co/iLGwFLaSMZ

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

When you talk to a customer about a specific problem, they will naturally “focus” on that problem, at the exclusion of other problems they (or their business overall) is facing.

With this focus comes a disproportionate emphasis on solving THAT specific problem.

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

Useful framework to tackle conflict at work — distinguish ‘tactical’ from ‘personal’ conflict.

[Rune Kvist @RuneKvist]

I’m trying to fall in love with conflict.

Below are some reflections on a tearful team meeting.

The lesson: dial up tactical conflict ⬆️, dial down personal conflict ⬇️.

https://t.co/09IqOfHjcp

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@erd_xyz @_dnfstudio 🏎🔥

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I don't usually retweet memes, but when I do...

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@stephsmithio The 80,000 Hours podcast hosted by @robertwiblin goes very deep with guests on a range of topics (thoroughly researched, skips the standard interview circuit questions, 2 - 4 hr episodes) - strongly recommend! E.g. this episode: https://t.co/4TEOERuvg9

[David Saltares @d_saltares]

Learn how our small remote 🏖️ engineering team builds a learning platform at scale. Check out our stack and how we leverage serverless. #DEVCommunity #react #NodeJS #serverless #AWS https://t.co/v09T8cfotQ

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@Molly__Millions Thanks for sharing Natalia - glad you found it useful!

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

New blog post:

Is the Great Stagnation ending?
What technologies am I watching in the decade ahead?
Are we going to get life extension treatments soon?

5700+ words on all of this. Please read and share!

https://t.co/5zIE48XpIC

[Rafal Wilinski @rafalwilinski]

Starting a new side-business in 2020 with the right tools feels like child's play. @AWSAmplify gives me an infinitely scalable backend, data mgmt, and auth for ~free, @vercel and Next.js solves 99% of my frontend problems, charging 💰 using @stripe is bliss.

[Sam Altman @sama]

I still underestimate the compounding power of the rapid execution and iterated learning feedback loop.

A commitment to this, over the course of a career, is the closest thing you can get to guaranteed success.

[Mikkel Lauritzen @miksimal]

@edtequity @EducationUoE Congrats Kelsey! 🎉