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Stripe BYOT (Bring Your Own Team)
- n42 10y agoThis is the first time I've seen something like this, but my hunch is that Stripe is not the first to do it. Has anyone here done something like this? I'm interested in how well this works. I could see how it would be difficult for the team to integrate well into the company.
- bpicolo 10y agoLike another commenter mentioned, it's not entirely dissimilar from small acquihires. I think it's a smart idea.
- yesimahuman 10y agoI did it with my best friend and now co-founder. I think it probably got us working more quickly, but also wanted us to leave and do our own thing more quickly (which we did!)
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoThis is pretty excellent. I'm sure there will be turbulence, but this at least makes explicit what many of us try to do anyway when we move through our careers... bring the best people we've worked with, with us. But that often requires all kinds of implicit backroom dealings and influence peddling. This makes it nice and transparent and to the point. Very cool experiment. Really excited to hear how this goes some day. I hope the good folks at Stripe will post occasional updates about how this takes shape over time. Could be really transformative.
- mathattack 10y agoInteresting. Seems like a cheaper alternative to acquihiring. :-) Long term I'd love to see stats on this. My intuition is you'd wind up more successful, similar to how referrals make better employees. There does seem like some risk though - the team will likely succeed or fail as a group.
- carsongross 10y agoVery interesting and clever move. Over my career, I've worked with quite few teams where the team was the only thing keeping everyone at a given company. The chance to move everyone would have, potentially, gotten some very good teams to go.
- azernik 10y agoOne interesting difference from acquihire here is that existing teams can be poached as a unit from other tech companies.
- rhizome 10y agoAs long as they all can get days off to interview.
- tyingq 10y agoIf they are successful with this, and it becomes popular, it opens up a pretty big risk for other companies that stand to lose an entire intact team. Potentially puts some leverage back into the employee base.
- Viper007Bond 10y agoPosted about an hour previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11567135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11567135 More comments there.
- ktamura 10y agoIt beats me as to why HN hasn't implemented duplicate detection.
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- DanBC 10y agoI think HN's dupe detection is a work in progress. I think it's currently a bit weaker, which allows good stories to get a chance when reposted. Here's a post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
- azernik 10y agoSpecifically - this link is to "/blog?=byot", while the earlier one is to the much prettier URL "/blog/bring-your-own-team"
- rhizome 10y agoWhy Stripe would implement their URL structure that way is a question that I have.
- azernik 10y agoMy first guess would be backwards compatibility - the "?=" is easier to implement with old tooling, so maybe they changed their URL scheme at some point. But in that case they should have done one/both of: 1) Only generate the ugly old-style URLs for the old posts. 2) Make the old-style URLs into redirects to the new ones, rather than duplicates. This way must be hell on the search engines.
- throwaway_xx9 10y ago> Working together, ... a network effect ... Startup investors know this Half right ... investors know that staffing the whole startup with founders is cheaper than hiring employees.