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Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison
Irish Businessman
Born: Sep 9, 1988
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It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge. Patrick Collison
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work. Patrick Collison
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In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders. Patrick Collison
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Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley. Patrick Collison
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There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their own success. Patrick Collison
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'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 seems normal. Patrick Collison
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network. Patrick Collison
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't. Patrick Collison
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions. Patrick Collison
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that. Patrick Collison
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe. Patrick Collison
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At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company. Patrick Collison
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One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development. Patrick Collison
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I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen. Patrick Collison
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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 space, and we see that in the cycle of these various apps. I think for infrastructure that that just naturally tends to play out over a longer time horizon. Patrick Collison
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I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance. Patrick Collison
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There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies. Patrick Collison
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