John Collison

“It was John Collison, the co-founder of Stripe. And this was in the relatively early days of Stripe before it was the massive success that it was today. John was a pilot. I met him through a friend and we went out to dinner or talking about what we were doing …”

“At the time, Patrick and John at Stripe, when all they had was an idea and not a single line of code, because they were remarkable and they were daring.”

“Now, they're spectacular. They're literally, like, they are in the set, you know, along with, you know, the entrepreneurs that, you know, I've invested in, you know, the Brian Cheskis and the Chris Hermsons, the entrepreneurs that I learned from, they are magn…”

“Without him, we might still be working on it. So, well, we'd probably be out of business at this point, but we probably would have worked on it for another year or two.”

“John is interesting in that, like you know, he is He's one of the rare people who can do, I think, who kind of can do, and I've seen him do all three really well. In fact, there were many times when like John was managing certain teams on an interim basis at S…”

“I've shared this viewpoint with Patrick and John, and they give me some variant of, oh, well, we're just a small Irish family company. Please don't tokenize my shares.”