John Collison

“The head of a bank is going to take a nineteen-year-old startup founder seriously? It seems pretty implausible, right? But they were good enough that they were able to convince these banks to work with them.”

“Sort of our kind of dispute resolution framework is kind of much more around which of us cares more than kind of which of us holds this title or that.”

“Aaron Levy had Facebook messaged John and we'd never heard of him, and we hadn't heard of most people in Silicon Valley but he'd Facebook messaged us, like, very early on asking to invest in Stripe and I think John didn't know who's this random guy and so we n…”

“You know, design certainly does make, you know, business sense, but even if it didn't, they would still do it, and I think that, that, that's that x factor. That's the thing that's gonna make, you know, hard decisions along the way possible. And certainly wort…”