Entrepreneurship Quotes by Patrick Collison

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

— Patrick Collison

At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

— 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…

— Patrick Collison

I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect…

— Patrick Collison

We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers…

— Patrick Collison

I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using…

— Patrick Collison

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

What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet.

— Patrick Collison

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

— Patrick Collison

'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…

— Patrick Collison

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture…

— 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