Stripe doesn't expose post times and the Bolt announcement appears to be dead. So, Stripe posted before Bolt - at least on HN.
> 1/ Stripe had deliberately taken checks from nearly all the top-tier Silicon Valley investors in order to block new companies
> IN FACT, many of their investors had told me as much, and commented on it as a great strategy!
> The pro-startup payment processor was on a mission to make sure no other payments company would ever be built in Silicon Valley.
I really doubt the investors know the fundraising strategy Stripe was using internally. I doubt this strategy is even legal and is doubly against any good judgement that YC could exercise - profiting off of competitors as an incubator would be fantastic. This statement is as good as speculation and is on the reader to determine Ryan's investors credibility.
> Getting a #1 ranking is INCREDIBLY difficult and generates millions of views.
Millions of views sounds falsey. The most upvoted comment I've ever had here was on a thread about Amazon's relationship with FOSS and still only garnered 500 votes.
> Within the hour, Stripe posted, gotten theirs to #1, and ours was gone.
Except they didn't.
The Bolt announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16870692 (April 4, 2018 @ 20:08:08)
The Stripe announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16869290 (April 4, 2018 @ 17:41:37)
Stripe doesn't expose post times and the Bolt announcement appears to be dead. So, Stripe posted before Bolt - at least on HN.
> 1/ Stripe had deliberately taken checks from nearly all the top-tier Silicon Valley investors in order to block new companies
> IN FACT, many of their investors had told me as much, and commented on it as a great strategy!
> The pro-startup payment processor was on a mission to make sure no other payments company would ever be built in Silicon Valley.
I really doubt the investors know the fundraising strategy Stripe was using internally. I doubt this strategy is even legal and is doubly against any good judgement that YC could exercise - profiting off of competitors as an incubator would be fantastic. This statement is as good as speculation and is on the reader to determine Ryan's investors credibility.
> Getting a #1 ranking is INCREDIBLY difficult and generates millions of views.
Millions of views sounds falsey. The most upvoted comment I've ever had here was on a thread about Amazon's relationship with FOSS and still only garnered 500 votes.
This is Ryan talking about Stripe on a green account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388310
I'm just really skeptical of everything said in this tweet storm, especially given the things he said under an anonymous account.