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At first https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 seemed pretty damning but if you
by jhchen 5y ago
At first https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 seemed pretty damning but if you hover over the dates of the HN posts, the title attribute shows the timestamp, and it would appear Stripe's came in a couple hours before Bolt's. Add in Lyft and the "facts" around this story really seem to fall apart.
- chrisfrantz 5y agoStripe also launched the product that day on their blog. If anything it seems like Bolt tried to preempt the Stripe launch.
- collectedparts 5y agoBy add in Lyft, I assume you mean the fact that Lyft is not actually a YC company? (vs, the tweets refer to Lyft as Stripe's batchmate)
- jhchen 5y agoYes, Lyft not being YC is is mostly it but also from an early Stripe employee [1]: "Lyft was also not originally on Stripe. They were on Braintree and switched over to Stripe after both Stripe and Balanced (another YC-funded payments company) competed for their business." Balanced was definitely a payments company also backed by YC. I cannot verify the switching from Braintree as I'm mostly an observer in all this but the other details are easily verifiable. https://twitter.com/cjc/status/1485803509110894596 https://twitter.com/cjc/status/1485803509110894596
- floatingatoll 5y agoPost IDs also support that observation, per elsethread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068454