This is the first time I've seen something like this, but my hunch is that Stripe is not the first to do it. Has anyone here done something like this? I'm interested in how well this works. I could see how it would be difficult for the team to integrate well into the company.
I did it with my best friend and now co-founder. I think it probably got us working more quickly, but also wanted us to leave and do our own thing more quickly (which we did!)
This is pretty excellent. I'm sure there will be turbulence, but this at least makes explicit what many of us try to do anyway when we move through our careers... bring the best people we've worked with, with us. But that often requires all kinds of implicit backroom dealings and influence peddling. This makes it nice and transparent and to the point.
Very cool experiment. Really excited to hear how this goes some day. I hope the good folks at Stripe will post occasional updates about how this takes shape over time. Could be really transformative.
Interesting. Seems like a cheaper alternative to acquihiring. :-)
Long term I'd love to see stats on this. My intuition is you'd wind up more successful, similar to how referrals make better employees. There does seem like some risk though - the team will likely succeed or fail as a group.
Over my career, I've worked with quite few teams where the team was the only thing keeping everyone at a given company. The chance to move everyone would have, potentially, gotten some very good teams to go.
My first guess would be backwards compatibility - the "?=" is easier to implement with old tooling, so maybe they changed their URL scheme at some point. But in that case they should have done one/both of:
1) Only generate the ugly old-style URLs for the old posts.
2) Make the old-style URLs into redirects to the new ones, rather than duplicates. This way must be hell on the search engines.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 37.1 ms ] threadVery cool experiment. Really excited to hear how this goes some day. I hope the good folks at Stripe will post occasional updates about how this takes shape over time. Could be really transformative.
Long term I'd love to see stats on this. My intuition is you'd wind up more successful, similar to how referrals make better employees. There does seem like some risk though - the team will likely succeed or fail as a group.
Over my career, I've worked with quite few teams where the team was the only thing keeping everyone at a given company. The chance to move everyone would have, potentially, gotten some very good teams to go.
Potentially puts some leverage back into the employee base.
More comments there.
Here's a post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
1) Only generate the ugly old-style URLs for the old posts.
2) Make the old-style URLs into redirects to the new ones, rather than duplicates. This way must be hell on the search engines.
Half right ... investors know that staffing the whole startup with founders is cheaper than hiring employees.