Irish - Businessman | 1990 -
There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.
John Collison
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Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.
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We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.
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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
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Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.
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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.
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People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
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Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.
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Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.
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You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.
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I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.
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Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.
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