"In no specific order".. but at #3 you'll find a company you've never heard of listed beside Facebook, Stripe and Instagram. Oh and they wrote the post. Alphabetical (listed at the very bottom of the article) or founded-year order seems a far better "no-particular"(* apparently benefits author) order.<p>On the other hand.. if this really only took 100 hours to compile, that's impressive.
I’m not sure the problem statement for Stripe is quite right. PayPal was quite simple to set up when Stripe came around, it was just a little amateurish looking compared to the big players, and you couldn’t white-label it at all.<p>The Facebook one is silly as well since MySpace existed…
Stewart Butterfield has started two gaming companies that ended up creating two other products:<p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield</a>