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…

— Patrick Collison

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

— 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…

— Patrick Collison

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

— 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…

— Patrick Collison

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

— 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

It's not that I don't enjoy TV. If I had infinite time, I would watch it.

— Patrick Collison

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted…

— Patrick Collison

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or…

— Patrick Collison

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by…

— Patrick Collison

If you're building a consumer app, you're necessarily coupled to the intrinsic time cycle of human fashion in that it's a fashion-driven…

— Patrick Collison

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card…

— Patrick Collison

There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception…

— Patrick Collison

It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to…

— Patrick Collison

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

— Patrick Collison

It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and…

— Patrick Collison

Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the…

— Patrick Collison

One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'

— Patrick Collison

The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts…

— Patrick Collison