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Joining Stripe
- twog 14y agoCongrats! So Stripe is acquiring Kickoff, and I saw from this tweet https://twitter.com/bdc/status/311134449293201408 https://twitter.com/bdc/status/311134449293201408 that Kickoff will still be developed? Will the current Kickoff team be developing it on nights/weekends? Or is Stripe taking over the product and developing it together?
- michaelvillar 14y agoWe will maintain it on nights/weekends after the official launch!
- tbassetto 14y agoCongrats! I thought @tba was working on Kickoff, he's not joining Stripe?
- tbalthazar 14y agoYes, I've been working on Kickoff for the last year or so, and no, I'm not joining the Stripe team. ;)
- pc 14y agoYeah, Michael and Ben will still be maintaining Kickoff. There's some precedent here: before Saikat and Sheena joined Stripe about two years ago, they'd previously been working on Mockingbird (http://gomockingbird.com http://gomockingbird.com). Since then, they've kept the business up and running (on Stripe!). Given both that precedent and how much work Michael and Ben have put into Kickoff, we felt it made sense for them to keep it alive.
- dariopy 14y agoI'm sorry but last time I checked, Mockingbird development is all but stalled since the founders got hired by Stripe. Which is a shame, given how a great product it was. Since you're probably gonna see them around, please ask them: why don't they just hire an employee to do actual work for Mockingbird? Thanks!
- Void_ 14y agoIdea: Open-source Kickoff :)
- rafweverbergh 14y agoSmall roundup here, with Twitter Q&A with pc: http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-acqui-hire-of-the-belgian-team-behind-kickoff/ http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-ac... (self link)
- bsimpson 14y agoNo managers? I'm curious how Stripe compares culturally to Valve, GitHub, and Zaarly. If I ever decide to work for someone else, I'd want to choose a decentralized place like those.
- cristinacordova 14y ago(I work at Stripe) Patrick answered a question on Quora about why Stripe doesn't have product managers and the cultural aspects behind that decision: http://qr.ae/TFjJK http://qr.ae/TFjJK
- bsimpson 14y agoThanks - I'll take a look!
- jonknee 14y agoHopefully there's an accounting/compliance manager...
- zaidf 14y agoI wonder if it is easier to go without PMs where you have a focused product with a very specific type of users, often developers. In that case, your developers can more easily relate to the company's customers. On the flip side, imagine a product that is used by accountants, doctors and other diverse users. I can see it being more difficult for devs to juggle coding and product management.