I was a founder of a fintech startup (Kash) and I've worked with and around Stripe for about a decade now.

I think I know more fintech startup founders than the average person. I've literally never heard any of my founder friends saying anything about Stripe or Patrick or John acting improperly. They are among the highest integrity people I know.

This is one of the least helpful things people ever say. A family unit is a unit. Saying I'm putting my company above my marriage is like saying I'm putting my company above my health. This is just terrible; because if you are not healthy you can't run a company. In my case, my wife is as committed to the company as I am. There are days actually when she is more committed. She knows exactly when the stress points are and she knows exactly what is needed. I will come home some times and found that she had a few free hours and has dedicated them to the company.

"... is like saying I'm putting my company above my health."

From parent: "Ron Conway: Well I mean are you willing to work 24/7"

So, yes. That's exactly what they are saying.

In case anyone is looking for an example of an application and a video, here is my company's successful application and video from the S14 batch.

http://www.withkash.com/blog/2015/08/27/applying-to-yc-part-...

We provide a sample application here: http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/#example

And sample videos here: http://www.ycombinator.com/video/

Here is my teams unsuccessful application, though we did get an interview:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/our-ycombinator-s15-application/

And we are applying again! Truly, we were encouraged by our rejection email.

We wanted to post our unsuccessful application (and hopefully eventual successful application) to show that it's okay to try, fail.

I recommend reading: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

When I see the applications of the types of people that made it through YC, it really makes me feel small. Either way, thanks for making this and good luck with Kash!

Perhaps you are being sarcastic, but if you aren't I honestly honestly hope you do not do this in other areas of your life and discount yourself.

I think you're misinterpreting the comment. That's just a nice way of giving a compliment, essentially saying he's humbled by the quality of people applying; not necessarily that he doesn't think much of himself.

You may be right. I wasn't sure.

I read it in the same way as schrodinger.

Indeed, many times how you understand a comment says more about you than the writer.

Did you guys ever return to Ontario, or did the SF nab you like all the rest?

We ended up splitting the team. We have an office in KW and an office in SF.

Damn, that first line is so obvious why it's needed. I feel like the rest of the app doesn't matter at that point, so I dunno how to factor it in :P.

Good job anyways. :)

Love the direction you're going in with Kash btw! It feels extremely familiar ;)

(note: I'm being serious I actually love it)

Thanks!

My wife's name is Kashley, she often goes by Kash. Any chance you guys have t-shirts?

Sure! Send us an email through the site. I'll look for it.

Thanks! That's part of our business that has evolved over time. Majority of our customers are not restaurants. In fact, we've learned the pain is massive even in e-commerce and for larger traditional retailers.

We totally used iPaulGraham for interview prep. It was great to get us in shape for the interview, but none of those q's came up in our interview.

Aaron is right. It's Nejatian. Hi Aaron!

Hey Kaz - fixed!

Thanks! Not the worse though! I go by Kaz because when I was in Junior High, the basketball coach spelled my name as Kazday Nejootsian. So you know. Improvement over time!

There are many different explanations floating around. The one I like the most is that it is actually US and that U is placed on top of the S. That's why there are often two vertical lines.

Isn't it better to prefer the one with the most evidence supporting it?

That sounds far too reasonable.

My preferred explanation is that the dollar sign looks like that because the dollar sign creating pixies created it that way.

(all hail the dollar sign creating pixies)

usual legalese: I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer. I'm no longer practicing. You need to get yourself a lawyer ASAP. Where are you located?

i'm located in north carolina, company is in VA, the company that acquired them has several international offices, not sure where they're based out of yet.

I've never used these guys, but they are a big firm and if your equity is worth a lot you may want to consider them:

http://www.kattenlaw.com/employmentlaw

I can't recommend them other than to say that it is a fairly large firm and if I needed a first call, I'd probably call them.

If you want a smaller shop most bar associations have special practice groups. They have referall practices that are basically free or very cheap and can get you a basic lay of the land way better than anyone on here. Here is the one that I think is closest to you: http://www.meckbar.org/lawyerreferral/lawyerreferral.cfm

I don't know if you need a specialist or anything, but the firm we use is based in NC: http://www.rbh.com/ I don't have much to compare them to, but I've been pretty happy with their work.

Yeah. The wait sucks. I am with you. But the instances of marriage fraud used to be as high as 50% from some offices. Investigators were finding people selling books on how to dupe Canadians into marriage and ghost consultants selling whole fake marriage ceremonies.

I highly highly doubt the 50% number. But fine. Lets assume that for a second. Now that CIC has added a 2 year requirement on the conditional PR, they should make a public commitment to reduce the time it takes for getting your spouse into the country! That the CIC isn't doing so, and it keeps publicizing the unbelievably high marriage fraud numbers makes me feel like they are being disingenuous. My wife and I both have doctorate level education. It seems we'd be more welcome in other developed countries - more so than my own Canada.

In the past year, basically every single immigration program to Canada has changed. Here is the changes on the main economic class: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/...

Thanks.

It looks like the Skilled class still requires a letter of arranged employment[1]

It's crazy, because my brother easily meets the 67 points required, but without arranged employment he can't even apply. (I was the same, and ended up being sponsored by the province of Yukon through my employer.. which took over year)

[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp

EDIT: The whole thing is so confusing. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp Says you must have a letter of arranged employment before you can even apply... then a bit further down it says that's one of the 6 selection factors and you can get up to 15 points for it. I just filled out the online self-assessment as my brother and got 68 points without arranged employment. Can he apply or not?

EDIT2: Just spoke to CIC - it doesn't matter if you get 150 points, if you are not in the PhD stream, or the arranged employment stream, you can not apply. Fullstop.