John Collison
22 statements across 11 episodes · 15 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 9, 2025 by John Collison · across every show →
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Jul 9, 2025 positive
Jul 9, 2025 negative
Collison: Non-standard European labor laws hinder small cross-border startups
“One is where the regs are just bad, and the second is where the regulations are not standardized, where places where, you know, employment law is really annoyingly different across European countries, and so if you're a ten-person startup and you employ people…”
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Collison: Stripe PMs built viable Lovable prototypes in three hours without engineers
“I think I mentioned to you that a few weeks ago, my product management team held a hackathon and within just three hours, they had put together real viable prototypes on products that I would want to fund tomorrow. So with no eng, no design.”
Oct 6, 2025 bullish
Collison: Stablecoin checkout is a few years from mass-market adoption
“I think there'll be something similar with stable coins where they'll be offered at the point of checkout way before people Become super familiar with them, but we're probably only a small number of years away from some mass market.”
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 28, 2025 neutral
Nov 4, 2025 bullish
Stablecoins will grow 100x from their current scale, predicts John Collison
“People still have no idea how big stable coins are going to be. And I think they discount us because it feels like it's a lot of hype right now, but we're going to look back when stable coins are a hundred times bigger and just think of this moment as so cute.”
Nov 18, 2025 bullish
Nov 18, 2025 bullish
Collison: A dedicated UI for finance could emerge within 10 years
“I feel like there could be a product in the next 10 years for finance people, where in hindsight, it is obviously the correct UI, but just like the spreadsheet kind of came out of nowhere as a UI, it may feel like it came out of nowhere at that time.”
Nov 18, 2025 neutral
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Collison: Stripe's elevated online business creation never dropped post-lockdown
“There's a lot of charts of the shape of Stripe, I don't know if it's this way of Microsoft, where obviously March, 2020, you saw this discontinuity, right? Much more e-commerce activity happening, and we saw the rate of online business creation because, you kn…”
Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Collison: High-agency, non-expert engineers are ascendant at Stripe thanks to AI
“High work ethic people. Who maybe weren't the best engineers you know, previously or now, those people are massively ascendant, as far as I can tell, because they suddenly got the exoskeleton, you know, and like, they always have the ideas as to what we should…”
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Collison: Real-world industry experience is required to discover massive B2B markets
“You talk to university students and often their ideas for companies are pretty half-baked. Yeah, it's find my friends. It's like a college textbook exchange app, you know, but you know, there's like the five apps or whatever. Whereas so frequently what happens…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Collison: Stripe runs a weekly all-hands segment dogfooding its dashboard
“We do at our, like, little weekly All Hands Weaver recurring segment of Just Walk the Store, where we, like, click around in the dashboard together, and we're tripping over, like, why is that modal there, and that's a bit confusing or whatever, just so we're, …”
Apr 14, 2026 neutral
Apr 14, 2026
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs voice models operate on text and audio tokens simultaneously
“In our models now, it's going to be a combination of not only operating on phoneme level, you also operate on the text level. You operate kind of, In both in sync, because when you are predicting the context, you need to understand how that sentence will get c…”
Apr 14, 2026 positive
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs embeds technical leads into non-technical teams like talent
“Even in non-technical teams, Having a technical resource. So, you know, we will have a person in ops or in talent that will, we have effectively a tech lead for that team. That helps them automate a lot of that, that, that work and helps up level the rest of t…”
Apr 21, 2026 bullish
Collison: Stablecoins are already the best option for cross-border payments
“Two places that we're seeing tons of interesting stuff is one, any kind of cross-border use case, where if you want to send money to a hundred countries, it's already the case that stablecoin's a much better way to do that than anything else. And that's where …”
Apr 21, 2026 positive
Collison: Stripe is building Tempo for scalable AI agent crypto payments
“The second, and this is where Tempo, our new initiative, That you guys were nice enough to work with us on is coming in is very scalable crypto payments, and obviously agents is what we have in mind as we're developing Tempo, where, you know, if you want to pa…”