41 Quotes by John Collison

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

Elon Musk is a cool cookie.

If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.