[alexjray]

Most of that is Ian Storm Taylor. This is what happens when software is treated as a first class citizen and the co founder(s) are technical. It's a specific class of companies like Stripe and Square. The business itself is treated as a software product, internal influences external.

[Toine]

Can you elaborate on "internal influences external" ? I don't get it.

[throwbacktictac]

I believe he/she means that the way you practice is the way you play.

If you put your best effort into the things that "do not matter" (e.g. hobby, open source work) then the discipline will show in the external displays of your work (products and services).

[topicseed]

That would explain why Ian Storm Taylor slowed down on slate, his text editor, over the last few months. He must have been very busy with this deal.

He is a wonderful software maker. All the best to him!

[fblp]

Ian Storm Taylor departed the company in ~2013 i think - but was all a technical team with strong opensource culture.