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Thanks Stripe for advancing the industry by generating this content. I'm impressed with how broad they interpret their mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Their Atlas program is the best example.

BTW on https://stripe.com/about I only found "Help us build the universal payments infrastructure of the internet." but it is listed on https://stripe.com/press

Disclosure: I'm interviewed in one of the pieces https://increment.com/on-call/the-benefits-of-transparency/

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Off-topic, but that about page is pretty awesome. Is that everyone who works at Stripe? If so--kudos, what a nice touch. Most start-up "About Us" pages just show smiling head shots and bios of the founder and senior execs, as if they're the only people doing anything in the company.

Stripe is in a class of its own in many ways.

It's more that if you put all of your employees up there, they start getting poached.

It says a lot about Stripe's workplace culture that they're not afraid of this.

> It's more that if you put all of your employees up there, they start getting poached.

I hope you're joking, because that seems like a very silly reason in the age of LinkedIn and recruiter databases. It's probably very easy to find a relatively up-to-date list of employees for any given company out there.

My guess is that most small companies don't do this simply because they don't even consider that it would be a nice gesture to publicly recognize more than just the top execs.

Speaking from experience, it's actually worries about poaching, letting the competition know the size of your various teams, and possibly privacy for employees too.

You are right that with things like LinkedIn you could probably get a lot of this information, but it's enough of a hurdle that execs still think it's worth it.

Well, then this is superstition on the part of those execs. LinkedIn is the one tool that every recruiter uses. They are more likely to map out your employee network on LinkedIn than to even visit your company website at all (much less count on it for having accurate up-to-date information).

I've always considered it more of a pragmatic thing. Execs don't change all that often, some roles need to be there (sales, press, service).

But in a growing company above a certain size keeping such a page up to date can be a pain.

> BTW on https://stripe.com/about I only found "Help us build the universal payments infrastructure of the internet." But it is listed on https://stripe.com/press.

Good point! We should clean that up.

If you get the chance, that about page could use some optimization too. It's running at 1fps on my beefy machine (Chromium, Linux).

Do you have HW acceleration enabled? I found that I had to ignore the GPU blacklist[1] in order to get HW acceleration on linux. While on the same card it worked out of the box on windows.

[1] chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist

You make me feel better about spending time on HN as a CEO :) Keep up the good work and the worthwhile mission.

> how broad they interpret their mission of

Does that seem a bit... bubbly to anyone else?

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