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Patrick Collison Biography

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Patrick Collison is an influential entrepreneur in the fintech industry. Born on September 9, 1988, his specific career and contributions are not well-documented at this time.

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“The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.”

Ideas Bigs Happens Found Interesting Intelligent Efficient Commerce Most Interesting Replacements Stripes Offline Behemoth

Author:Patrick Collison

“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.”

Made Differences Quality Company Clear Website

Author:Patrick Collison

“When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.”

People Ideas Different Remember House Moved Different Ideas

Author:Patrick Collison

“I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?”

Thinking Technology Relevant Capability Pessimistic

Author:Patrick Collison

“I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.”

People Thinking Believe Dream Creativity Capable Performing Aspiration

Author:Patrick Collison

“I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies have to win or the banks have to win and one of them is going to lose. It's not as black and white.”

Thinking Kind Winning Black Technology Human Nature Black And White

Author:Patrick Collison

“Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.”

Years Couple Stripes Overnight Success

Author:Patrick Collison

“One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.”

Ifs Important Reason Done Easy Technology Internet Lessons Shapes Clouds Impressive Things Done Amazon Important Lessons

Author:Patrick Collison

“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.”

Want Giving Looks Individual Easy Accepting Internet Credit Cards Users Small Business Mobile Payment Website Credit Card Apps Stripes

Author:Patrick Collison

“It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.”

Wells Models Advertising Devices Mobile Transactions Business Models Advertising Business

Author:Patrick Collison

“We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.”

Thinking Sells Critical Acceptable Peers Stripes Gatekeepers

Author:Patrick Collison

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Born: September 9, 1988
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