startup employees

Former Stripe employees are founding a series of new payments companies, continuing a pattern in which alumni of the payments giant go on to build their own ventures in the sector. The trend highlights how Stripe's workforce has become a breeding ground for fintech entrepreneurship, with ex-employees applying what they learned there to new payments plays.

A survey reported by Korean media finds that about 70% of startup officials support an overhaul of the workweek toward a flexible system. The finding puts the startup sector among the voices pushing for changes to rigid working-hour rules, a debate that has been active in South Korea over how to balance productivity, overtime limits and employee choice. Startup leaders appear broadly aligned with reform proposals.