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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 15:58 Harry Stebbings It's not quite the ten billion dollars that was reported, but OpenRuda, seven billion dollar acquisition by the Irish Paulson brothers, Brewery or Brethren.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:06:13 Rory O'Driscoll I've come to the conclusion that weird control terms are an acceptable part, because otherwise everyone just does what the Collison's do in states private.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:03:58 Rory O'Driscoll You'll probably ring the Collison's and say, hey guys, if you're doing the victory lap on the PayPal headquarters, can you include me in on that trip?
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:24 Harry Stebbings So this is why the Colisons don't, everything else is great. 2 times in the scene
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:06 Harry Stebbings Disclaimer people, for the Collison's that are listening to this episode, Rory is not in any way being detrimental to Stripe.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:57 Harry Stebbings Do John and Patrick with Stripe have advantages that you don't have as private companies in their ability to invest in long-term, invest in R&D, not think about next quarter quite so religiously?
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:46 Alex Rampell Um, John Collison gave me a book on like, you know, one of those Springer yellow, you know, academic textbooks on the origins of the payment system.
- ▶ 21:41 Alex Rampell And the thing that's different, like, the, the way that Patrick, the reason why Patrick, um, and John made Stripe work partially is it's like, they just believed that a great number of new companies will be created, and they're gonna pick…
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:39 Harry Stebbings I always remember watching, uh, I think it was John Collison, say like, oh, I, I'm not gonna do the accent, because I'm sheer accents, which is, you know, why I'm not an actor. 3 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:13 Harry Stebbings For example, I think the Collison's brand has been expertly crafted.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:48 unnamed speaker You either got to become cash or partisan and settle down and just become the Collison brothers and compound private forever to, you know, to universal
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:21 Jason Lemkin and they'll drag out, they'll drag out the collision brothers or Toby and they'll all do joint PR, but whether for open eye, this is a top five initiative.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:21 Harry Stebbings Because I worry when we go back to your very early statement that there's not many Patrick and John's or Sam's or Dario's, and it's like the problem is there's not enough truly generational defining entrepreneurs for the supply side of…
- ▶ 1:28:07 Hemant Taneja And, you know, and honestly, it had a huge impact because I saw him and John build Stripe.
- ▶ 1:32:58 Hemant Taneja He's gotta give it 10 years, you know, so I'm, we're, it's a compounding business that, you know, Patrick and John always say infrastructure is hard, but it also compounds, and they're sort of steadily just doing that, you know, and, and…
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:44 Rory O'Driscoll So the truth is it's an idiosyncratic bet and the Colossus haven't shared their opinion with me. 2 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:19 Vlad Tenev 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.
- ▶ 52:08 Vlad Tenev I've shared this viewpoint with, uh, Patrick and John, and you know, they, they give me some variant of, uh, oh, well, we're just, uh, a small Irish family company.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:16 Harry Stebbings You know, if, if you know the Collinsons, they're like, why would I do that?
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:03 Harry Stebbings Well, I, I think it's John or Patrick Collison. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Harry Stebbings You know, John, John Coulson said the other day, listen,
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:29 Harry Stebbings The Collison's have shown, I think very clearly that you can stay for a lot longer than you plan to.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:15 Harry Stebbings I think Patrick and John are amazing, but I'm like, is Adyen massively underpriced then at 40?
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:41 Harry Stebbings Are you worried by the extended window of privatization by great, great founders like the Collison's, bluntly just continuously being private for years and years and years?
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:09 Harry Stebbings I don't think John or Patrick want to go public
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:18 Shaun Maguire And then I think one last thing is that, and this is something that John and Patrick Collison do very well too.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:54 Harry Stebbings I think Stripe and, you know, the Collison's is a great example of one that has done, but when you look at the majority of great- Stripe had, you mean the Collison's had a love triangle? 2 times in the scene
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:42 Samir Vasavada And we start talking about Vise and what we're building, and he's like, look, like, you know, it's fascinating because I was at this retreat with the Collison brothers, you know, a couple weeks ago, and they were talking about, like, a…
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:50 Harry Stebbings I'm getting an angry email from Toby and the Collisons, but one of his big regrets was actually letting Stripe into the Shopify ecosystem and not be more dominant in controlling a relationship there.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:05 Tom Blomfield I mean, I think either of the Collisons would be incredible. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:14 Sam Altman Uh, the Collison brothers are incredible. 2 times in the scene
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:05 Harry Stebbings You chose Toby and Nicollasons as the weak founders?
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:21 Bastian Lehmann Patrick and John Collison. 3 times in the scene
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:27 Harry Stebbings I find it hilarious the amount of people who want to go up against the Collison's or Toby at Shopify. 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:12 Brian Halligan And my, and my tentmate was John Collison from Stripe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:02 Harry Stebbings Sorry, I'm still laughing about a Collison tent.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:05 Harry Stebbings You mentioned John, like as a strike, why would I go out in 24?
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:54 Matthieu Rouif No, no, we don't, like, we don't, it's a trend, like, it's a stripe, uh, stripe brothers, colleagues and brothers, where actually it's one thing they were doing really early on, is like, how do you measure the impact of a teammate?
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:50 Jason Lemkin Uh, seed investors might not like 40, 48 people out in the round, but if the seed guys will, the A guys will still do the deal, maybe the founders are happy with John Collision and, uh, and Olivier from Datadog and, uh, you know, all the…
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:45 David Tisch I think the Collison brothers have, you know, built a investment portfolio that's probably, uh, quite unique and 3 times in the scene
Shreyas Doshi: The 6 Product Metrics You Need To Know; The 3 Types of Product Leader | E913 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:38 Shreyas Doshi Uh, and I said, you know, I, I think
- ▶ 49:49 Harry Stebbings Uh, so if you, if you look back at the Colossons in particular, can I ask what profile would you put them in, in terms of craftsperson, visionary, or operator? 4 times in the scene
20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- ▶ 15:00 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser The scale we were at at that point, it was a full week of just spin up and you had sessions with John and Patrick where they were really, you know, spending time outlining the culture, outlining the company vision, which I felt like drove…
- ▶ 16:35 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser And it's still similar to what I just described, where John and Patrick talk, and you basically get a broad lay of the land of the company strategy, all of our products, operating principles.
20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- ▶ 37:11 Harry Stebbings You look at your Patrick's from Stripe's and John's from Stripe.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 8:50 Harry Stebbings The Collison's fucking killed it on hiring.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 34:16 Mark Carney Patrick and John, you know, the founders, their quality, their, you know, their curiosity, their perseverance, empathy, and also that
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings David has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Retool from some of the very best in startups, including Sequoia, YC, Patrick and John from Stripe, Henrique and Pedro at Brex, Paul Graham, Nat at GitHub,
- ▶ 2:50 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Enrique at Brett, it's from John at Stripe, from Brian at Sequoia.
- ▶ 7:53 David Hsu John Collison from Stripe was offering some office hours to YC companies, and this must have been maybe March, maybe April, something like that, of 2017. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:45 Harry Stebbings Having access to John, and having access to that kind of mentorship, I guess, in the early days, you know, came through the YC network, and when we chatted before, you said something that was really interesting to me, which was, you said,…
- ▶ 26:06 unnamed speaker We spoke about kind of Henrique at Brex before we spoke about John at Stripe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 David Hsu That said, I do think that there is this kind of boldness that we talked about before, let's say someone like Enrique, or like John has, that I think really is necessary in order to build a really great company. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 33:26 Reid Hoffman So Paul Graham, who is a founder of Y Combinator, dropped me an email saying there's two Irish brothers, Patrick and John Collison, who are literally spectacular, and they're going to be reinventing banking, and that you should meet with… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 26:56 Cyan Banister I mean, the Collisons are a great example for Stripe, but it definitely changed my style of investing.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 15:25 Ravi Gupta And then this devotion to the mission leads to things like partnering with Patrick and John and Will and Claire. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 9:53 Sahil Lavingia Patrick and John from Stripe are probably still embarrassed, but you have to have an insanely high level of product quality.
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 10:33 Harry Stebbings I've spoken to John at Stripe about this quite a few times. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 26:28 Blake Scholl It was John Collison, the co-founder of Stripe. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 24:24 Vinod Khosla It's the kind of founder we like, like Pat Brown at Impossible Foods, or Jack Dorsey at Square, or Patrick Collison and John Collison at Stripe.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Wasim has raised over fifty-eight million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, both in terms of firms and people, including the likes of Index and Stripe, and then on the people side, Octa's Frederick…
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 6:21 Kulveer Taggar You know, my team then, it was me, my cousin, Harge Tagger, Patrick, and John Colson of Stripe.
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 27:57 Geoff Ralston Extraordinary, amazing, incredible people from Paul and Trevor and Robert and Jessica, the founders, to Sam, the Collisons, the incredible founders of incredible YC companies, Drew Houston, Brian Chesky's, the incredible founders of newer…
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings John Collison at Stripe, and Jeff at GGV for the fantastic questions, suggestions today.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 31:51 Rahul Vohra And alongside that, we have about a 120 different angels, everyone from, you know, Sam Altman, from YC, through to John Carlson, from Stripe, through to Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, just like incredible folks of that caliber involved.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings Instantly, the ones that come to mind there are the Collison's with Stripe, and how they think about, kind of, the evolution of payments is incredible, but we did speak about opinions and your thesis and theme-driven investing, so if we…
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 22:31 Hemant Taneja Ilad, John and Patrick, Josh, they're all incredibly thoughtful in what they're doing, and so you better bring your A game if you're going to sit there and try to expand their thinking.