My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an ele…

- John Collison

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product…

- John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

- John Collison

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and…

- John Collison

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure,…

- John Collison

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the st…

- John Collison

Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much …

- John Collison

In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can …

- John Collison

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

- John Collison