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 turnin…

- Patrick Collison

I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the qu…

- Patrick Collison

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

- Patrick Collison

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 re…

- Patrick Collison

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of work…

- Patrick Collison

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…

- Patrick Collison

I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations …

- Patrick Collison

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

- Patrick Collison

I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies have to win or the ba…

- Patrick Collison