Experiences Quote by John Collison

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the…

— John Collison

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very…

— John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

— John Collison

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do…

— John Collison

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

— 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 infrastructure, by…

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

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

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

— 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 out to…

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

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

— John Collison

“Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten. Hold them close.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

We have the philosophy that you can learn from past experiences.

— Rodri