> And as we grow, we will relentlessly aim to preserve the velocity, agility, efficiency, and talent density of the 90-person startup that we are today.

Echoes of WhatsApp. Huge congrats to the team!

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yipinwong 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Stripe is a high-velocity environment. OpenRouter (OR) is a startup so might move fast, but unsure if OR can handle the velocity with corporate guardrails put in place already.

Any companies that are bought go through culture crashes, and I am interested in how this plays out.

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aleqs 2 hours ago | parent [-]

In what way is Stripe a 'high-velocity environment' ?

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yipinwong 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I was saying, they grill you hard in a nicest possible way

	▲	aleqs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They grill their engineers for the mistakes of their incompetent leadership, that's true.

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jambalaya8 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

man, whatsapp was sure something in early 2017 though.