Patrick Collison

“When Stripe got larger and larger, the question became not only why now, but like, what's the opportunity on the table for this idea? Like, this has to be an idea where we could eventually work it out to Patrick's, you know, sort of bar was, is this gonna add,…”

“One of the pieces of advice I got as I was starting this company, I spoke with Patrick Collins at Stripe. On building an API business, he said, like, your first API design will be wrong. Just know that.”

“A lot of founders, Guillermo's a good example, John and Patrick were examples of this well, are like excellent brand marketers, but that does not a predictable revenue engine make on its own.”