Patrick Collison

“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…”

“So one is, I think it's good to have a mission. When I joined Stripe, we did not. It came to be apparent that to increase the GDP of the internet was probably the mission, but Because people kept repeating that back to us. And Patrick had written it on some we…”

“Fantastic COO is just the right amount of friction and tension with forward momentum and mutual trust, because then the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, right?”

“I was an early Stripe customer at my startup and yeah, Patrick would like we used Google talk at the time. Patrick would be sending me messages like on a weekly basis, just like checking in. And so again, it's funny how successful these folks get, but yeah, Pa…”

“Patrick Collison being quoted in that book, not only was he just like wrote part of the foreword or was a quote, he basically credited Seven Powers with helping build Stripe.”

“Instead of doing user research, talking to customers, informing what to build, it's talking to user, talking to customers, informs your mental model of what the customer needs. And then that informs what to build.”

“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…”