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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by polote on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:51PM (#31524235)
You can be very talented and do a ton of work without having a bigger business impact than another person doing 50% less than you.

At the end whether you have a design system, if you have infinite scalability, if you use node or Ruby, having that feature or that other feature it doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is the revenue the company make.

If what matters was the people then ngo would be unicorns

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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by Cederfjard on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:04PM (#31525650)
Do those things have no impact on revenue (or costs)?
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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by Sebguer on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:09PM (#31524387)
I'm curious where you've worked to be so confident in this opinion.
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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by polote on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:27PM (#31524506)
At 4 saas b2b unicorns mostly between 5m and 50m arr.

+ interviews with people working in hr and culture at other ones.

And to give you more concrete data, the significant employees where :

1. The ceo founder (work hard play hard culture) b2b enterprise martech

2. The ceo founder + cto founder (chill + excellence culture) b2b enterprise productivity software

3. The ceo founder + vp of sales (micro management culture) b2b enterprise martech

4. The ceo founder ( chill + low expectation culture) b2b smb martech

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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by texasbigdata on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:41AM (#31526670)
200x ARR? Not taking away from your examples but those are 2020 valuation unicorns.
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