Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing.… — John Collison Copy Share Image
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as… — John Collison Copy Share Image
For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas. — John Collison Copy Share Image
Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take… — John Collison Copy Share Image
I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley. — John Collison Copy Share Image
Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies. — John Collison Copy Share Image
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to… — John Collison Copy Share Image
As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow. — John Collison Copy Share Image
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online. — John Collison Copy Share Image
No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people. — John Collison Copy Share Image
With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website,… — John Collison Copy Share Image
