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Hey there! I work on Stripe Checkout and we recently released an update that should make selling globally a lot easier, removing most of the bullet points in your post. Here are th…

I've use Scientist for every major refactor I've done--IMO it's one of the best examples of a library that does one thing extremely well and has a clean interface.

This is incorrect. The S-1 shows asterisks for the co-founders and are likely just placeholders. In the previous S-1, it showed that they owned roughly 7% together. https://twitter…

One counterexample is Hearthstone. Players buy packs to have access to cards that otherwise would take them weeks to unlock. AFAIK, professional & hardcore players actually spend a…

I left the company when it was around 40 and only know of revenue numbers at that point. Nothing has been announced publicly as far as I know, but it's substantial & comparable to …

Wistia. 10 year-old business. Raised only a seed round and has been profitable & growing many years in a row.

Algolia is an amazing product. I've used it on several projects over the past few years and the performance & ease of use is top notch.

You have no idea what the probability is. It's not 100%, but it's also not 0%. You also have no idea what Instagram's probability (and hence, expected value) was at the time of the…

This is such a negative, short-sighted outlook. A company doesn't need an immediate monetization strategy that's open to the public for it to have value that's attractive to an acq…

Give them some credit beyond being "amazing negotiators." Have you used their kit? The publicly released one, or the one actively in development? How do you know if their tech isn'…

Acquisition price of over $1 billion: http://recode.net/2016/03/11/gm-spent-over-1-billion-on-self...

Congrats to Will and Sublime, great everyone involved!

TLDR: - Basecamp releases v3 - Basecamp markets to their customers to upgrade to v3 - Some people upgraded & noticed their integrations with 3rd party applications no longer work (…

Agreed that it definitely depends on where you live. I don't, but could, take an Uber/Lyft for my commute everyday and it would cost about $5-$7, whereas a ride on SF public transi…

I am shocked...time for Fabric to build a backend?

Glad to have made you laugh. I personally have never encountered any of the problems you mentioned. I used to work at a company that used Dropbox for Business and I just remember g…

If I'm not mistaken, Dropbox has had multiple account support for some time (about a year?).

Revenue: $148.5m (FY2013) $215.1m (FY2014) $319.5m (FY2015) Net income: $10.8m (FY2013) $19.0m (FY2014) $6.8m (FY2015)