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>it's kind of unfortunate how founder lore really minimizes employees It's far easier to tell the story of a handful of people than of thousands. The only succ
by javajosh 4y ago
>it's kind of unfortunate how founder lore really minimizes employees
It's far easier to tell the story of a handful of people than of thousands. The only successful approach to the latter is selecting some at random and telling their stories - but that still leaves most people out. I think it's an interesting and hard problem to tell a comprehensive story about a large group, but I'm not really sure if it can be done. Even Howard Zinn focused on (usually unsuccessful) opposition leaders more than the everyman in his narrative! In any event, I'd love to see someone succeed at making such a narrative, not necessarily about Stripe, but about anything really.
- kareemsabri 4y agoFor sure. I understand why stories are told the way they are. I stand by my point though. And I do think there's a happy medium between Ayn Rand'ian style hero entrepreneur and telling the story of thousands that can be achieved with modest effort, since I've read a few of them. Admittedly the absurdity of the headline is what triggered the initial thought for me, but the article lived up to the headline in this case.