Irish - Businessman | September 9, 1988 -
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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It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged.
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The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't.
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There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.
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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.
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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.
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When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.
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It's not that I don't enjoy TV. If I had infinite time, I would watch it.
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What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet.
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In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.
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If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.
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