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WHEN ROSS BOUCHER was born in 1985, a mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC, cost $4,000. A 10-hour charge allowed for 30 minutes of talk time. By the time he turned 3, the first fully digital consumer camera, the Dycam Model 1, was sold in the United States.
- Beginning The Entrepreneurial Journey
- Growing Stripe Through Word of Mouth
- Funding Fintech at Y Combinator
- Company and Domain Name
- Security, 7-Day Waiting Period, Costs
In 2005 at the age of 16, Patrick Collison was the recipient of the 41st Young Scientist of the Year for his work with Lisp. His brother and co-founder John Collison scored the highest-ever score received by a student for the Irish Leaving Certificate. Before Patrick’s last year of High School he left early to attend MIT. During his first quarter o...
The team’s friends in turn invited their friends. “Initially it very much spread through a word of mouth process. That was surprising to us because it’s a payment system not a social network so it’s not something you’d think would have any virality whatsoever. But it became clear that everything else was so bad and so painful to work with that peop...
Their first funding came from Y Combinator. Patrick knew Paul Grahamthrough his involvement with Lisp and Auctomatic, and once they told him about what they were doing, he offered to fund it. Considering he made hundreds of thousands of dollars on Patrick’s previous company, it had to be a no brainer. His Auctomatic co-founder is also YC Partner Ha...
When they first started working on the site it was called /Dev/Payments. As you can imagine it caused some problems. “(The name) is horrendous to say. Plus most schemas don’t allow slashes in company names. So we decided we needed to change it.” Names like PayStack and PayDemon were on the list but eventually they started to look any names they cou...
While their merchant approval process is instant, Stripe has a mandatory 7-day waiting period for each transaction before you can get your money. The founders say that’s the only way to do the fast and simple setup. “Because it’s seven day that gives us time to really get an accurate picture as to the profile of the business. And because Stripe pro...
Ross Boucher General Information Description. Mr. Ross Boucher is a Co-Founder at Runkit. He served as an Executive at Stripe. He founded 280 North, served as a Technical Fellow at Motorola Mobile Devices and was a Software Engineer at Apple.
Ross Boucher was a Founder of RunKit. He was a Founder of 280 North, he splits his time between server and client-side code, including the text system in 280 Slides. Ross also helped develop Cappuccino, an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser, and 280 Slides and Atlas. Ross has a
- Male
- June 19, 2016
- Seattle, Washington
Ross Boucher. I'm currently working on RunKit, a new and improved REPL for Node.js. I publish photos from time to time on flickr. I helped create Cappuccino, the best way, at the time, to create interactive applications that run on the web. I founded 280 North with my friends Francisco Tolmasky and Tom Robinson. We made 280 Slides and Atlas.
Francisco Tolmasky. Ross Boucher. Headquarters. United States. 280 North was a web software development startup company formed in 2008 by college friends Tom Robinson, Francisco Tolmasky, and Ross Boucher. [1] It was purchased by Motorola in 2010. [2] Tolmasky and Boucher both previously worked for Apple, on the iPhone and iTunes respectively.
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