Maia Josebachvili's life and career have been nonlinear, spanning continents, cultures, and coasts, with roles ranging from founder and CEO, to CMO, to senior executive roles leading people operations, corp dev, and product management. Today, Maia serves as Stripe’s Head of Strategy and Operations and Business Lead (GM) for its enterprise product and is one of the company’s key executives preparing the business for its next chapter.

Today, we're incredibly excited to formally welcome Maia as GV's newest Advisor, coaching our portfolio company founders on high-agency culture, founder mindset, scaling organizations, and growth.

Read more: https://www.gv.com/news/stripe-maia-j...

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0:00 Intro
0:40 Lessons learned from skydiving over 700+ times
7:27 Roles and experience at Stripe
9:18 Scaling Stripe in the early days
12:23 Leadership advice for scaling at an early stage company
13:38 The importance of people managers and and CHROs
14:48 High-agency leadership
18:17 Advice on becoming a founder and what to expect