Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture - Part 1
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a 🔒 subscriber-only issue 🔒 of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. Upgrade to paid Founded in 2009, Stripe is a true startup success story. Since its founding, Stripe has raised $2.2B in funding up to 2023. This year, the company executed a $6.5B secondary market raise, mostly to cover RSU taxes for staff, and to offer employees liquidity. Stripe was valued at around $50B in March this year, and employs around 7,000 people, including thousands of software engineers. In 2022, Stripe processed $817B worth of payments, and more than 100 companies handled $1B or more of payments on the platform. This newsletter uses Stripe for payments, as well as features like Stripe Climate – contributing 1% of newsletter revenue to carbon removal. Stripe is also famous for its unique culture, and engineering culture. It’s a Silicon Valley company – with
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