How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by mmahemoff on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:31PM (#14903183)

So it's the equivalent of saying "How this inventor made $X billion with the flick of a switch" after they spent decades inventing the light bulb.

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by failrate on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:14PM (#14904848)

More like how turning on lights is easy for billions of people because someone else did the hard work of the power lines, generators, switches, light bulbs, etc.

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by failrate on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:50PM (#14905180)

Actually, it would be more like all of that stuff already existed, but it was a woeful and Byzantine process to get all of it lined up for your particular lightbulb.

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by johndavidback on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:11PM (#14903618)

It was a bit interesting to see, and perhaps not at all surprising, that they've been around since 2010. And they crossed the billion-dollar-valuation threshold 4 years later.

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