Patrick Collison

“One of the things that really strikes me about both Larry Page and Mark and, you know, a lot of the YC founders like Patrick Collison or founders of Airbnb is they just have a level of conviction that I think ordinary humans just don't have. They believe in th…”

“Patrick Collison from Stripe often says this, which is for every senior exec role that he decided to Hired. He first spent time with five or six execs in that role to really understand and establish what is best in class.”

“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.”

“I think Patrick Collison has said something about the idea that in 50 years we'll probably look back at the Bay Area as one of the greatest squanderings of potential wealth that the world has ever known, and I tend to agree.”

“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…”

“My assessment would be that Patrick is very much a visionary craftsperson type person, so, you know, every time I've interacted with him, and I learned a lot from, you know, about product from interacting with him. That's been the conversation is, is the visio…”

“Patrick just like said to me that he's going to build Stripe for the next 2030, 40 years.”

“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.”

“Cause I asked him who are your ideal customers? And he said, they haven't been born yet. And he was talking about the developer movement. Remember this is 2010, right?”