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Stripe was also a place where driven, talented people treated each other kindly. Certain people had trouble with that last bit, however.
Huge fan of his style and dedication to detail. His early work on those Stripe landing pages, like Checkout, was ahead of the time.

You can see his latest work at https://increase.com, another finance API.

> His early work on those Stripe landing pages, like Checkout, was ahead of the time.

In what way? Is there an example of this?

> You can see his latest work at https://increase.com, another finance API.

Interesting how they achieved the three gradient blocks with the angled corners. And the mockup of the app isn't an image - it's actually done in HTML.

Interesting. Worthless for the value proposition but visually interesting, to be honest.
> In what way? Is there an example of this?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160301000015/https://stripe.co...

Most hero sections in mid-2010s did not use CSS and JS animations to this extent. Video playback with an overlay gradient was one technique to animate a hero, but that's not the same level of quality and craft as moving DOM elements. IIRC BDC made these in vanilla (according to some design podcasts).

The Bitcoin page is another example of meticulous design work, remaking Vim in HTML here is crazy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160301000200/https://stripe.co...

Their open-source page too. They go the extra mile here with JS game of life.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160301000519/https://stripe.co...

Animations are more prevalent today (see pages like https://linear.app), but these Stripe pages were shipped years ago and they still hold up.

Newbie challenges on frontendmentors are better designed than this.
I have a boss like he mentioned here -

“His optimism is also remarkable and contagious. We went through many difficult periods over the years due to exponential growth, reliability concerns, etc. and his tendency to see solutions wherever others see problems is simply wonderful.”

It's amazing how one person can be such a blessing for your life.

I think people with sane, knowledge-based optimism and the ability to uncover opportunity where failure is more evident are indispensable.

I’ve worked on teams with and without these people, and the difference in velocity and overall achievement is starkly contrasted. So much of what teams accomplish is based not on some rigid parameters determining concrete outputs, but what teams individually and collectively believe they can do together. When failure inevitably occurs, they respond by yet again uncovering opportunity and optimism. Other teams often reel and suffer major hits to morale.

I suppose this is true in personal life as well. So much of what you do in life is a product of what you believe you can do and how you respond to obstructions and failures. On a team, leadership which handles this particularly well seem to have a cumulative positive impact by contagion I suppose.

“Interview with guy who was in the right place at the right time”
you'd be surprised how many people are in the right place at the right time and still eff it up
I find that to be a pretty reductionist view of somebody with a lot of talent who was early at what became a massively successful fintech startup. Given that, plus the context of the intended audience of that website, I don't feel like this is just a "random guy who was in the right spot" throwaway puff piece. I've been a designer for 15 years and BDC's work is one of only a small handful of modern designers I personally cite as an influence.