Interview with early Twitter employee Alex Payne

Published by on September 29, 2014.
Alex Payne interview with Joe Stump

Alex Payne (@al3x) was one of the first engineers at Twitter. He stuck around for 3 years, and saw the team grow from 10 to 150.

Then he left to co-found, Simple, a consumer friendly online banking service, based out of Portland, Oregon.

Quotes

“Often, the code you want to write is not the code the business needs you to write.” – Alex Payne

Listen to Joe Stump’s interview with Alex here: