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#crazyideas at Stripe
Stripe used to have a Slack channel called #crazyideas where employees could pitch ideas they thought the company could build. The only rule was that the ideas had to carry the real possibility of being wrong, as otherwise they could just be an obvious to-do. Anyone in the company, regardless of seniority or function, could submit an idea for anything. The channel worked because people weren't precious or protective of their domain - someone could pitch something related to a separate team, and if it was good, the person would get transferred to that team to help build it.
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