[hko]

Braintree is not a great example of a company that "didn't take VC." According to Crunchbase they raised a $34 million series A round and a $35 million series B round. BigCommerce also raised a $15 million series A round and a $20 million series B round.

[lbarrow]

The article about us was written in March of 2011, before we accepted funding. We were bootstrapped for 4 years.

[ryan-allen]

Yes, correct, people keep making this mistake. 37s only accidentally featured Shopify who took seed money, but they corrected it and removed them from the roll once it was pointed out.