43 Quotes by Patrick Collison

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that,

We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content,

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

It’s very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

The part of Stripe that I’ve always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn’t otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon’s cloud service are very important. Even if they aren’t technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There’s a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don’t.

One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'