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John Collison Quotes

Irish - Businessman | 1990 -

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

Vision People Better Web Part

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

Hard Things Because Charge Come How

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

People Influence Will First Company

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

Past Product Experiences Our Much

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.

Moving Doing You Far Away Hollywood

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 fix with Stripe.

People Easy Talk Fix Over Out

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

Light Trees Internet You Know Kind

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.

Beginning People Small Doing Year

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

Values Competitive Advantage Were

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

Right Solutions Being Just About

Elon Musk is a cool cookie.

Cool Cookie Elon Musk

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Time School Curious People Me Think

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