Stripe vet's new-grad playbook: from faxing chargeback evidence to building Radar
hazelcough · x · 2026-10-20
hazelcough recalls her first project as a new grad at Stripe: turning chargeback evidence from the API into PDFs and faxing them to banking partners—she'd never seen a fax. The unglamorous work taught her how much complexity you can hide behind a simple API, and two years later she built the first version of Stripe Radar.
Her takeaway: you don't choose where you start, but going deep, becoming the expert, and earning bigger swings still works—"AI changed how we work, not the playbook."
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