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Peter Sellis
Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat and later head of product at Discord.
Circuit updated September 21, 2026
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“A good like terrorist organization [laughter] essentially has two things. One is it has this like uh ideological culture that everyone understands why they are doing what they're doing. Uh and then it has a very very clear organizational structure of who can be trusted with which decision.”
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“we actually had an onboarding presentation which I delivered to every single new hire for seven years straight every week or every other week later uh that was about this because like that was part of the cult right like this is how we deliver core product value.”
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“collaboration comes with incredible coordination costs. And coordination costs essentially assure that you're moving as slow as the slowest node um in the system.”
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“It is not Yeah, you can't spell culture without cult.”
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