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Dhanji Prasanna is the Chief Technical Officer of fintech company Block, which runs Cash App and Afterpay.

On a podcast, Prasanna said that engineers should focus on purpose over perfect code.

Block processed over $66 billion worth of payments for the quarter ending June 30, a 10% year-over-year growth.

Dhanji Prasanna, the Chief Technical Officer of fintech company Block and a former Google software engineer , says that “code quality doesn’t make you successful” — what truly matters is solving real problems for users.

On an episode of “ Lenny’s Podcast ,” released on Sunday, Prasanna said that “a lot of engineers think that code quality is important to building a successful product.” In reality, “the two have nothing to do with each other,” he added. According to Pr

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