John Collison

“Basically separate the effort involved in kind of building something with the effort you want to put behind talking about said thing. And that, that doesn't have to be the same features that you talk about.”

“Overall, from both, I sort of learned the importance of setting the culture you want simply by consistently being an example of the behaviors you want to replicate in the organization. So instead of kind of talking about values, I saw both of them just kind of…”

“You are one of the best people I've ever worked with at solving problems three through a hundred, but I need you stuck on problems one and two.”

“John and Patrick were the first marketers at Stripe because they were developers themselves. They truly understood the developer community. And when that audience for Stripe was squarely developers to begin with, they knew exactly how to authentically reach th…”