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Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by dcunit3d »

aionel wrote: post #31
sama wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Greg isn't a founder of stripe. Larry and Sergey have been working on Google for 17 years. Mark has been working on Facebook for 11. Drew and Arash have now been working on Dropbox for 8 years. Brian, Nate, and Joe have been working on Airbnb for 7 years. Things change, of course, and you shouldn't work on a company that isn't working for 10 years. But I think it's a reasonable question to ask. If you go into somethi…

+1. Long term commitment, planning and patience is hugely undervalued in a 'quick win' culture.

there's much pressure for an early exit, either IPO or acquisition. if i'm passionate enough to start a company, i want to remain in creative control.

that said, i would be very discerning on funding sources because i don't want the quick exit.

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by Bootvis »

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #14

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

Let me also say thank you for the CTF's! I enjoyed them immensely. Please get in touch with the Starfighter guys ;)

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by tptacek »

Bootvis wrote: post #42
krat0sprakhar wrote: post #14

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

Let me also say thank you for the CTF's! I enjoyed them immensely. Please get in touch with the Starfighter guys ;)

Hey, Greg! Get in touch! :)

(We're three equal founders and not all male, for what it's worth).

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by varunjuice »

sama wrote: post #29
foobarqux wrote: post #3

What does it say about the question "Why do you want to work on this company for the next 10 years of your life?" when it turns out even the founders of the most successful startups in the world don't want to?

Greg isn't a founder of stripe. Larry and Sergey have been working on Google for 17 years. Mark has been working on Facebook for 11. Drew and Arash have now been working on Dropbox for 8 years. Brian, Nate, and Joe have been working on Airbnb for 7 years. Things change, of course, and you shouldn't work on a company that isn't working for 10 years. But I think it's a reasonable question to ask. If you go into somethi…

Not only is this a solid framework when it comes to choosing what one wants to do, in addition to being the reality of building a business, it is an increasingly important guardrail when the entire bay area buzzes with "rocketship" "unicorns" that get to $1B in ~2-3 years.

One way to counter this would be startup founders tweeting & sharing more but I know how little time you have for anything when you're building a business.

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by dang »

foobarqux wrote: post #40
dang wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They ask it of founders. Correct, so it isn't relevant here. Please stop taking this thread off topic.

If we imagine Greg was a founder what would be different exactly? (Also I'm curious, does anything I have said in this thread count as "gratuitously negative"?)

I'd be happy to discuss this with you at hn@ycombinator.com, but don't want to take the thread further off topic.

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by su_yuen »

sama wrote: post #29
foobarqux wrote: post #3

What does it say about the question "Why do you want to work on this company for the next 10 years of your life?" when it turns out even the founders of the most successful startups in the world don't want to?

Greg isn't a founder of stripe. Larry and Sergey have been working on Google for 17 years. Mark has been working on Facebook for 11. Drew and Arash have now been working on Dropbox for 8 years. Brian, Nate, and Joe have been working on Airbnb for 7 years. Things change, of course, and you shouldn't work on a company that isn't working for 10 years. But I think it's a reasonable question to ask. If you go into somethi…

Just like Warren Buffett saying don't go in short and fast. Always go in for the long haul.

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by danellis »

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #14

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

gdb had a critical role in solving some of them, too ;-)

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by danellis »

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #14

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

While he did promote them, they were all built by Siddarth Chandrasekaran, who is still at Stripe. So hopefully he'll keep that up.

Re: Leaving Stripe

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Post by siddarthcs »

danellis wrote: post #49
krat0sprakhar wrote: post #14

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

While he did promote them, they were all built by Siddarth Chandrasekaran, who is still at Stripe. So hopefully he'll keep that up.

This is said Siddarth Chandrasekaran. :) I proposed the first Stripe CTF, inspired by SmashTheStack (http://smashthestack.org/), but the resulting Stripe CTFs are the result of many, many hours of several folks' work (Andy Brody, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, gdb, Jonas Schneider, Jorge Ortiz, Ludwig Petterson, Nelson Elhage, Philipp Antoni, Steve Woodrow, and myself).

And yes, it's certainly a tradition that we hope to keep up!

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