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Comment by Keyframe

8 years ago

I know it's HN and YC and all, and Stripe sounds nice and all, but I have never seen it 'out in the wild'. Not once! I'm in Europe and I surf a lot (even buy stuff online often), so what gives? Do I hang around wrong parts of the internet or Stripe hasn't reached out as far yet?

Also, Stripe co-founder claims here in the comments that vast majority of their employees ("and there are now more than 1,000) work on their core functionality. I presume core functionality isn't sales. What the hell, man? Quick google search reveals Windows 7 development team was 960 people, more or less. Sure, microsoft has other teams that service OS dev team with their tools and whatnot, but so do we have those 'out in the open' with OSS. I can't even imagine what I could accomplish with a dev team of 1,000 competent developers.

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psaniko  8 years ago

I read the co-founder's comment as the whole company having 1000 employees (Wikipedia confirms this) and the vast majority serving the core functionality in one way or the other.

Without Sales, Ops, etc. I imagine the number of core functionality devs to be 100-300.