If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time. Patrick Collison Read Quote
What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet. Patrick Collison Read Quote
When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time. Patrick Collison Read Quote
Entrepreneur’ is a long, fancy French word, but it didn’t seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal. Patrick Collison Read Quote
We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don’t see any argument to go back to 1600. Patrick Collison Read Quote
The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn’t. Patrick Collison Read Quote
Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it’s focused on the kinds of transactions that weren’t possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work. Patrick Collison Read Quote
One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon’s cloud service are very important. Even if they aren’t technically impressive, they make things easy to do. Patrick Collison Read Quote
The part of Stripe that I’ve always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn’t otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths. Patrick Collison Read Quote
