Being a public company certainly doesn’t stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult. Patrick Collison Read Quote
I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it’s leading to happen. Patrick Collison Read Quote
If you’re building a consumer app, you’re necessarily coupled to the intrinsic time cycle of human fashion in that it’s a fashion-driven space, and we see that in the cycle of these various apps. I think for infrastructure that that just naturally tends to play out over a longer time horizon. Patrick Collison Read Quote
Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley. Patrick Collison Read Quote
I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition. Patrick Collison Read Quote
It’s a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up – generally, it’s hard to get the team to persist. It’s easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family. Patrick Collison Read Quote
I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance. Patrick Collison Read Quote
It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged. Patrick Collison Read Quote
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that. Patrick Collison Read Quote
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I’m not doing that I’m reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers. Patrick Collison Read Quote