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John Collison

Irish Businessman

Born: 1990

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Related authors: Alexander Turney Stewart David Perry Martin Naughton Patrick Collison Sean Quinn

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology. John Collison

Mom School Engineer High Brother Born High School Both County Were Math Very Irish Trained Electrical Dad

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

People Will First Batch Those Influence Much Company

Elon Musk is a cool cookie. John Collison

Elon Musk Cookie Cool

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood. John Collison

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

People Vision Better Stripe Web Part Linking

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 product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start. John Collison

Time Experience Made Long Long Time First Building Year Before Our Spent Stripe Launch Had Sure Very Getting Going Whereas Customer Customers Acquisition Product Paying Start Start-Up

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 small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing. John Collison

People Year Beginning Took Extremely Stripe Slowly About Small Make Sure Doing Hire Hired Lot Very Get Wanted Us Hard Who Company Found Four Cared

The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across. John Collison

Internet Easily System Network Computer Global Reach Another Testament Any Where Transfer Information Across Connected Works

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 linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better. John Collison

Good Better Internet Country Stripe Easier Web Online Economic Idea Economically Make Making Exist Providing Linking Infrastructure Businesses

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

Nature Faster Other Tend Most Than Companies Grow

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps. John Collison

Example Take Advantage Apps Area Take Advantage Lightweight Devices Goods Obvious Mobile Selling Just Really Fascinating Services Start

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet. John Collison

Internet Irish Just Thing

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

Stripe Apt Web Amazon Payments Description Services

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

Values Developed Advantage Instrumental Were Gaining Competitive Competitive Advantage

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process. John Collison

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

Other Stripe Solutions About Inventive Area Just Being Right Applying

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

Dangerous Nice Think Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Exists Optimism Very Times

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point. John Collison

Needs Technology Challenge Think Market Point Doing Modify Companies Technology Companies

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