I believe Patric Collison explains a little about this on this answer he gave on Quora[1]: Most of the people who work directly on the user-facing parts of Str

I believe Patric Collison explains a little about this on this answer he gave on Quora[1]: Most of the people who work directly on the user-facing parts of Stripe have managed products before, and enjoy the process of figuring out how they should work and what they should do. Before Stripe, Saikat and Sheena built Mockingbird. Alex built Taskforce and a number of open source projects. Amber had a long list of products under her belt. Ross founded 280 North, built 280 Slides, and co-created the Cappuccino web framework. Ludwig single-handedly designed and built Observer, a real-time web analytics tool. Ben started Kickoff. (As it happens, many people who don’t work directly on the user-facing parts of Stripe also have similar experience.) [1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/Does-Stripe-have-product-managers-or-do-engineers-manage-the-products-themselves http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/Does-Stripe-have-product...