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Collison: John and I own an SF house and hope its value declines
“I'm a landowner in San Francisco. John and I own a house together, and I hope its value declines”
Collison: 60% of Atlas Companies Say They Wouldn't Exist Otherwise
“When we survey companies started with Atlas, 60% of them tell us they would not exist if not for Atlas.”
Collison: Stripe invests roughly 70-80% on core optimization and 20% on speculative bets
“Roughly speaking, we invest most of our effort, we don't have a precise number on it, but let's just say 70 or 80% in optimizing that which we already have, that which we already know is producing, which Turns that which there's a sort of roughly clear line of…”
Collison: Stripe prioritizes rigor, determination, and warmth when hiring
“I think the three that kind of really stand out to me are this kind of rigor and clarity of thought, this sort of hunger, appetite, willfulness, determination and this, again, Warmth and desire to make people around them better off.”
Collison: I finish one to two books each week
“I maybe You know, start half the books I get, and I probably finish a third of the books I start and that works out to you know, finishing one to two books a week”
Collison: Hosted a 2011 Bitcoin meetup but bought no Bitcoin
“I actually invited him to a Bitcoin meetup that I held in 2011. And I did not, however, buy any Bitcoin, but I invited him to that meetup and he replied and, you know, apologized that he couldn't make it.”
Patrick Collison: I self-studied British exams to enter MIT early
“I decided to see if there was some way that I could just go to college in the U.S. The subsequent year, and it was sort of a long story, but I eventually figured out that I could not do it if I did the standard Irish, kind of followed the standard Irish educat…”