<strike>You mention Stripe twice now.</strike> (Sorry, the first mention was by someone else in a comment above). If their offices were located in my city, I'd jump at a chance to work there. It has nothing to do with belief. It's an interesting and unique product. Really wanting to work on a product doesn't require drinking the kool-aid of PR hype. Companies who try to force the kool-aid down their employees' throats are not to my taste. If Stripe is like that, the bad kool-aid would win out over my severe interest and I would leave.