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It would be if he was joining a corporate job. This is not "just a job" at a regular company working on a regular product. People talk about making the world a better place all the time but few do. Working on Atlas at Stripe has that potential for impact and you get to work with awesome founders. Congrats both to kalzumeus and Stripe

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> Working on Atlas at Stripe has that potential for impact and you get to work with awesome founders

Same with countless other jobs, such as working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, etc

It doesn't sound like Sr leadership role that can influence strategy, so it's basically a "job".

He'll come back to the dark side soon enough and build a sustainable business model (with the benefit of experience at Stripe, of course) :-)

I'd say the exact opposite. From my impression of it he is in charge of the Japan office.

If this is anything like how the company I'm at is doing internationalization there will likely be pushing (and some implementing) technical requirements to make the product culturally accessible. There will be B2B, and in this case B2Gov discussions. I'm sure he will also be heading up finding office space and hiring others to do the work.

This is a very likely a senior management position in addition to I'm sure a senior technical position.

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