Joining Stripe

(I work at Stripe)

Patrick answered a question on Quora about why Stripe doesn't have product managers and the cultural aspects behind that decision: http://qr.ae/TFjJK

Hopefully there's an accounting/compliance manager...

I wonder if it is easier to go without PMs where you have a focused product with a very specific type of users, often developers. In that case, your developers can more easily relate to the company's customers.

On the flip side, imagine a product that is used by accountants, doctors and other diverse users. I can see it being more difficult for devs to juggle coding and product management.

We will maintain it on nights/weekends after the official launch!

Yeah, Michael and Ben will still be maintaining Kickoff. There's some precedent here: before Saikat and Sheena joined Stripe about two years ago, they'd previously been working on Mockingbird (http://gomockingbird.com). Since then, they've kept the business up and running (on Stripe!). Given both that precedent and how much work Michael and Ben have put into Kickoff, we felt it made sense for them to keep it alive.

Idea: Open-source Kickoff :)

Small roundup here, with Twitter Q&A with pc:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-ac...

(self link)