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Would be interested in accounting for startup age. Wouldn't be surprised if the Ruby companies are older on average
by myroon5 6y ago
Would be interested in accounting for startup age. Wouldn't be surprised if the Ruby companies are older on average
- pythonaut_16 6y agoWould also expect the numbers to even out somewhat if you normalize for the number of startups choosing a language e.g. Ruby
- travisjungroth 6y agoAirbnb and Stripe are both W09 and S09, respectively. Brian Armstrong worked at Airbnb before cofounding Coinbase, which was S12.
- kelp 6y agoNot a YC company, but Square was also founded on Ruby. There was a pretty large monolithic Rails app that AFIK, may still exist. Though we hired a bunch of people from Google, who brought Java, and we went hard towards SOA. Around 2013 there was a Java vs Ruby war in engineering, with many upset people. It ended in peaceful coexistence. But most things in the main payment flow ended up Java.