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I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by rpeden »

matchagaucho wrote: post #21

I know from personal experience the sub-title to this article is "How I'm justifying a bad decision". Entrepreneurs know when they're making a bad decision, whether consciously or not. [Edited for brevity. No disrespect, but hate to see a Developer give up on their independence]

Hey, it's not as if he'll be slaving away in an Agile sweatshop with an evil Scrum Master looking over his shoulder and cracking the whip. :)

Joining a larger organization can provide the opportunity to accomplish things that would be difficult or impossible on your own. And if it doesn't work out, or eventually becomes disappointing, it's still possible to hop back on the entrepreneurial horse and ride off into the sunset.

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by ridruejo »

matchagaucho wrote: post #21

I know from personal experience the sub-title to this article is "How I'm justifying a bad decision". Entrepreneurs know when they're making a bad decision, whether consciously or not. [Edited for brevity. No disrespect, but hate to see a Developer give up on their independence]

It would be if he was joining a corporate job. This is not "just a job" at a regular company working on a regular product. People talk about making the world a better place all the time but few do. Working on Atlas at Stripe has that potential for impact and you get to work with awesome founders. Congrats both to kalzumeus and Stripe

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by pg_is_a_butt »

antoniuschan99 wrote: post #24

Wasn't Paypal taking payments over the internet in 2006?

> Options for doing this in 2006 were absolutely terrible.

yes, paypal was certainly taking payments over the internet in 2006.

right around when they locked my account for no reason, and literally took payments meant for me and kept them for themselves.

paypal is crooked.

you're all idiots.

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by chvid »

davidw wrote: post #2

Sorry to hear about starfighter, but it looks like you've more than landed on your feet. Good luck! I think with a big company at your back, you may be able to leverage that to do some great things. People in the US have no idea how easy they have it with creating a company, something I helped to fix a little tiny bit in Italy: https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/04/16/fixing-italy-a-litt... One of the key points: > A…

In Denmark you log in using your national identity card (a card with some one-off passcodes) on the following webpage; limited liability companies carries a fee of approx 100 USD, other forms of companies are free.

The process takes a few minutes in the simplest case:

https://indberet.virk.dk/myndigheder/stat/ERST/Start_virksom...

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by mahyarm »

chatmasta wrote: post #8

What I like most about the long term vision for Atlas is that, if it's truly "as easy as spinning up an EC2 instance" to form a new corporation, then it will be possible for a single entrepreneur to create complex global corporate structures previously limited only to multinational corporations. How nice would it be, as say, a digital nomad, to be able to have a single "holding company" based in HK, and dynamically c…

You can easily spin up new corps, but laws are not going to make the structures in between them easy without paying a lot of taxes or equivalent lawyers.

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by patio11 »

antoniuschan99 wrote: post #24

Wasn't Paypal taking payments over the internet in 2006?

It took me ~2 months to get BCC sold over Paypal, which was my major processor until Stripe came along. (I don't remember what the holdup was, but I very keenly remember the shucks-have-to-do-eSellerate decision.)

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by rst »

mendelk wrote: post #9

Is there any official communication re Starfighter? All I can find is this: > Starfighter is not only not hiring, but also closing its doors. We are 'pivoting.' https://twitter.com/boboTjones/status/774303916464930816

The only other thing I'm aware of is a brief note on Twitter that they're shutting down: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/771533037666390017

(FWIW, the "more to come" has so far been about the Ptaceks' next project, which is apparently something focused on security needs of startups, in collaboration with Jeremy Rauch, with details still apparently in flux; contact details for those interested are at http://latacora.com)

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by simonswords82 »

rpeden wrote: post #38
emilburzo wrote: post #12

> The overwhelming majority of jobs in the technology industry do not go to people who cold apply via jobs pages. sigh

If it's any consolation, the same is true for the best jobs in just about every industry.

Yep, it's not what you know...

Re: I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

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Post by emilburzo »

rpeden wrote: post #38
emilburzo wrote: post #12

> The overwhelming majority of jobs in the technology industry do not go to people who cold apply via jobs pages. sigh

If it's any consolation, the same is true for the best jobs in just about every industry.

I would understand if that would be the case for the best jobs, but it seems all of them are like that.
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