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Favorite pastry, favorite vacation spot, and whether you believe in the afterlife are all fair game in this biweekly hot seat.
#capital-ama
A Hungarian exam
Budapest test
This technique of briefly plunging fruit & veggies into boiling water, then into ice-cold water also means "to make white"
Blanching
It's the title of a Black Sabbath song, or, a Robert Downey Jr. movie
Iron Man
This chill South American animal is Capital’s unofficial mascot
capybara
This channel’s unofficial keyboard shortcut is Caps Lock.
#screaming
A Korean parchment curled up for storage
Seoul scroll
This "holy" mixture in Cajun cooking is onion, celery & bell pepper
Holy Trinity
Superman was born on this planet named after one of the noble gases
Krypton
Stripe’s earliest proposed name looked less like a company and more like a Unix path for financial infrastructure.
/dev/payments
Despite its name, this Capital channel contains considerably more babies and bake sales than footwear.
#bootshack
A Lebanese matching jacket & trousers
Beirut suit
The key to perfect dough? This process that activates yeast & provides that final rise before baking
Proofing
This HBO comedy series set in Northern California used former Facebook & Twitter executives as consultants
Silicon Valley
This home-services platform says its first Stripe Capital loan was approved in exactly 3 hours and 21 minutes.
Jobber
Capital engineers make offerings of bug reports, feature flags, and one-line copy changes to the coding-agent gods in this channel.
#capital-prays-to-devbox
Philippine flavoring from a tropical orchid
Manila vanilla
Sounding like the opposite of a donut verb, it means adding liquid to a hot pan, releasing caramelized bits from the bottom
Deglazing
In Disney's "The Fox and the Hound", the fox is named Tod, while the hound shares his name with this reddish metal
Copper
In late 2020, Capital partnered with this risk team to build Loss Repayment for merchants carrying unusually large negative balances. *need the full expanded name*
Commercial Business Risk (CBR)
Vesting dates, Shareworks, 409As, tax withholding—and, naturally, which boat to buy—dominate this unofficial financial watercooler.
#equity-unofficial
Sudanese darkness or sadness
Khartoum gloom
Parchment paper is often used to delicately cook fish in the French style known as en this
En papillote / en papier
This toxic element is paired with "Old Lace" in the title of a 1944 movie starring Cary Grant
Arsenic
Name the 3 Capi-pals who have achieved the Capital Trifecta (gotten engaged, gotten married and had a child while on Capital)
Ravi, Will & Brad