Thank You, Stargazer!
Cheers to you, Dayna. Your career represents the very best of what the jungle gym has to offer: a tour of many disciplines and teams, where you’ve built meaningful things, grown as a person, and left a lasting impression wherever you’ve gone. Your fingerprints are everywhere!
You’ve also left an impression on a lot of us, personally. Your creative energy, passion, kindness—and yeah, even the snark—is what makes knowing and working with you so fun. You’ve written a lot for other people over the years, so here are some letters we wrote for you.
Weekend with the Alpacas
Dearest Dayna, here’s an overly appropriately-detailed itinerary for our next Alpacas weekend.
How to Be a Boss: Lessons from Dayna Winter
Four lessons about how to be a boss, picked up from the original @nicecobra.
“I have a lot of emotions, you care a lot about emotions, and that’s just a terrible combination.”
—Dayna Winter, always making her manager’s life easier
GTM Plan to Befriend Dayna Winter
Are we aligned? To execute on this friendship plan, we’ll emphasize three key value props.
A Very Fancy Note
Boilerplate salutations! We would like to congratulate [DAYNA] on her many amazing years at [SHOPIFY, INC.].
More blatant flattery
Need we say more about what an impact you’ve had? Oh… you’re telling us to go on. OK, you’d think the above would be plenty, but it’s your anniversary! How much do we appreciate Dayna Winter and her talents, charm, and attitude? Let us count the ways.