Sean Mullaney

Founder and CEO of Seapoint. The financial home for startups. Former CTO Algolia, EU CIO of Stripe, Google & 4x Founder.

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

Who you hire in the first 18 months of your startup defines everything: culture, standards, ambition, pace. I wrote about the 3 filters I use for every hire - developed at Stripe and Google, pressure-tested at @SeapointHQ: https://t.co/YuOmMzBLVg

#startups #founders #hiring

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

6/ Before you build, ask honestly: is this 10% or 10x?
If it's 10%, know why. Sometimes that's right.
But right now, with these tools — what would you have to throw out to get to 10x?
That's where it starts.

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

1/ Building something 10x better than what exists is often easier than building something 10% better.
Not a new idea. Larry Page. Peter Thiel. Zero to One.
Still surprised how few founders have actually internalised it.

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

5/ Big ambition attracts different people.
The best engineers and operators want to work on something worth solving. Not make something slightly more efficient.
VCs aren't backing incremental either. They need a shot at an outsized return.

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

Today is a big day for @seapointhq - we've raised €7.5M, and Seapoint is now open to every startup founder in the UK and Ireland.

Full story here: https://t.co/JYYahQH2hd

[Ormeau Labs @ormeau_labs]

We’re delighted to announce that @seanmullaney , Founder & CEO of Seapoint Finance, will join us for May’s Founders Night!

Sean has an impressive track record—including CTO at Algolia, European CIO at Stripe.

Reserve your spot: https://t.co/Zs12NFWmea

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

@ormeau_labs Excited to be joining you all!

[Luke @Luke_Mackey]

Over 400 local founders, employing 8,000+ people, €2.4 billion raised, want better answers from those in government making big decisions on our behalf about what it takes to build a thriving local startup ecosystem.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Stripe Billing (our product for handling subscriptions and recurring payments, usage-based billing, discounts, invoices, per-seat pricing, etc.) is now a pretty large and fast-growing business. (Used by Atlassian, OpenAI, Notion, Anthropic, Intercom, and ~300k other businesses.)

While we started (as usual) building for startups, Gartner just deemed Billing a category leader for enterprises: https://t.co/jDCEtM8Obz. There is now a large and quickly-growing pipeline of public companies adopting Billing.

Even though large companies are typically most lucrative, I'm very bullish on products that target startups first. (1) Startups are discerning and won't put up with legacy/arcane technology. (2) Some become large (so you incrementally grow into the enterprise with them). (3) Maybe most importantly, the startups themselves help inculcate the right internal mindset. Dennis Whyte (of MIT's fusion program) has a "faster, cheaper, sooner" motto. Building for startups effectively forces you to adopt that approach in your own product development.

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

@aGabet Congratulations Aurelien very well deserved. You and the team do incredible work for Algolia!

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

Really excited to have joined @software_daily , one of my favourite podcasts, to talk about all things AI Search including how @algolia used vectors, LLMs and many more models to deliver high performance search at scale and low latency.

[Software Engineering Daily @software_daily]

Sean Mullaney is the CTO of Algolia and has worked at Google X, Stripe, and Zolando.

He joins the show today with @seanfalconer to talk about Algolia, vector compression, search optimization, and more.

@seanmullaney @algolia

Listen here:

https://t.co/2nivvVGCPE

[yoni rechtman @yrechtman]

Midas list general partner at a board meeting giving product advice to a technical team

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

@Farzy @algolia Welcome to the team - great to have you onboard!

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

Black Friday is such an incredible time for engineers. The amazing @algolia team scaled to 100,000 search requests per second this year and supported 5.8 billion requests on the day. And all with 99.999%+ availability. Thanks to the team and congrats to our customers!

[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

@eisokant @poolsideai Welcome to Paris! Come and hang out with one of the OGs of Paris startup scene at the @algolia office. We're doing some cool things with LLMs and vectors compression for high performance AI search. If youre looking to store and search vectors at scale we can help.

[Art Jonak @ArtJonak]

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Recorded live at the #AllInSummit 2023

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[Sean Mullaney @seanmullaney]

@hamishogilvy It's normally a sign the product is headed to the Google Graveyard: https://t.co/0ChRBXU1aJ