why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
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Stripe's internal culture doc was eviscerated on Hacker News
“There was some controversial, controversial, there was some stuff in there that was basically just like, you got to be willing to work really hard to actually, you know, be successful here long term. Oh my gosh, it was so controversial when it came out on Hack…”
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De Milliano: Stripe nearly rejected Claire Hughes Johnson when hiring at 150 employees
“Claire joined Stripe when we were around a 150 people, and we were very, very close to organ rejection.”
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De Milliano: Will Gaybrick had no operating experience when Stripe hired him as CFO
“Yeah, he was an investor and, you know, incredibly impressive background, but, like, no operating experience, really.”
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Muthukumar: Stripe had no dedicated marketing hire before late 2013
“And I convinced them that they needed a marketer. They hadn't had a marketer until then and convinced them that they needed someone to think about marketing as a discipline full time. So I joined in, in late, 2013.”
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Stripe's core undocumented technical strategy was maintaining a Ruby monolith
“Undocumented strategies at Stripe was we use a Ruby monolith. And so everything was done in the Ruby programming language with a few minor exceptions.”
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Seshan: Amber Feng and Christina Cordova built Stripe Connect's initial multi-party version
“And then we had started exploring this thing called Connect where Amber Feng and Christina Cordova had built an initial version of this, like, multi-party payments idea that Someone like Shopify or someone like Lyft could be able to route payments in multiple …”
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Grosser: Claire Hughes Johnson managed People before marketing at Stripe
“If you took Stripe under Claire, She had people, but didn't have marketing at the outset, had marketing at a later point.”
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Grosser: Vercel headcount exceeds 600; Stripe reached 8,000 before departure
“When I was at Stripe, we were, I think, 8000 people by the time I left. Vercel is now north of 600.”