John Collison

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

— John Collison

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

— John Collison

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

— John Collison

Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult…

— John Collison

I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.

— John Collison

Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

— John Collison

Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

— John Collison

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…

— John Collison

As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow.

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

— John Collison

With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into…

— John Collison

Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when…

— John Collison

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

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're…

— John Collison

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it…

— John Collison

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like…

— 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…

— John Collison

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light…

— 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…

— John Collison

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.

— John Collison

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

— John Collison

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

— John Collison