Joining Stripe(notes.deaxon.com)

78 pointsby pcvor 13 Jahren13 comments

notes.deaxon.com

http://notes.deaxon.com/joining-stripe/

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bsimpsonvor 13 Jahren

No managers? I'm curious how Stripe compares culturally to Valve, GitHub, and Zaarly.

If I ever decide to work for someone else, I'd want to choose a decentralized place like those.

cristinacordovavor 13 Jahren

(I work at Stripe)

Patrick answered a question on Quora about why Stripe doesn't have product managers and the cultural aspects behind that decision: http://qr.ae/TFjJK

bsimpsonvor 13 Jahren

Thanks - I'll take a look!

zaidfvor 13 Jahren

I wonder if it is easier to go without PMs where you have a focused product with a very specific type of users, often developers. In that case, your developers can more easily relate to the company's customers.

On the flip side, imagine a product that is used by accountants, doctors and other diverse users. I can see it being more difficult for devs to juggle coding and product management.

jonkneevor 13 Jahren

Hopefully there's an accounting/compliance manager...

twogvor 13 Jahren

Congrats! So Stripe is acquiring Kickoff, and I saw from this tweet https://twitter.com/bdc/status/311134449293201408 that Kickoff will still be developed?

Will the current Kickoff team be developing it on nights/weekends? Or is Stripe taking over the product and developing it together?

pcvor 13 Jahren

Yeah, Michael and Ben will still be maintaining Kickoff. There's some precedent here: before Saikat and Sheena joined Stripe about two years ago, they'd previously been working on Mockingbird (http://gomockingbird.com). Since then, they've kept the business up and running (on Stripe!). Given both that precedent and how much work Michael and Ben have put into Kickoff, we felt it made sense for them to keep it alive.

dariopyvor 13 Jahren

I'm sorry but last time I checked, Mockingbird development is all but stalled since the founders got hired by Stripe. Which is a shame, given how a great product it was.

Since you're probably gonna see them around, please ask them: why don't they just hire an employee to do actual work for Mockingbird? Thanks!

rafweverberghvor 13 Jahren

Small roundup here, with Twitter Q&A with pc:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-ac...

(self link)

michaelvillarvor 13 Jahren

We will maintain it on nights/weekends after the official launch!

tbassettovor 13 Jahren

Congrats!

I thought @tba was working on Kickoff, he's not joining Stripe?

tbalthazarvor 13 Jahren

Yes, I've been working on Kickoff for the last year or so, and no, I'm not joining the Stripe team. ;)

Void_vor 13 Jahren

Idea: Open-source Kickoff :)