In the words of @tikhbana - ex-designer at Stripe and now CEO of @AcctualTeam, a finops platform processing $200M+ in invoices across 100+ countries: "As a community, we've become obsessed with taste. but having taste isn’t all that impressive. I live in NYC. I see someone stylish walk by & I can just copy them everyday. Does that mean I have taste, too? We've diminished the idea of taste to uniformity. Looking like Stripe. Looking like Linear. Apple" Atikh, has spent his career in the unsexy parts of tech: dev tools, finops, accounting systems. And yet, in all of it, design and craft still matter deeply. For the 11th episode of BTS, we got into: • why personality is the last real differentiator. not taste • maximizing your superpowers as a designer • being a design founder • meeting his cofounders • building for stablecoins + fiat • the power of narrowing solutions Watch learn, share: