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I think the intended grouping of that sentence is (((Stripe founders) are (youngest Irish billionaires)) (with funding)), i.e. they're simply the youngest Irish billionaires, not the youngest Irish billionaires with funding. Still a fairly narrow superlative, but less ridiculous than the original interpretation. "Youngest Irish billionaires" is the lede, "with funding" is the actual news story - they're announcing Stripe's funding round.



Normally I would agree with this interpretation, except that Bloomberg did a proper story on Stripe's new funding a few days prior: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-25/payments-...


Shitty title. Should be: "With [new] funding, Stripe founders are youngest Irish billionaires."




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