Irish - Businessman | September 9, 1988 -
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
Patrick Collison
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In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.
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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.
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Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.
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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.
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I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition.
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It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.
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One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'
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