Top 34 Collison Quotes

#1. I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?

Linda Collison

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#2. 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.

Patrick Collison

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#3. It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.

John Collison

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#4. Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

Patrick Collison

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#5. In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.

John Collison

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#6. I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

Patrick Collison

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

Patrick Collison

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

Patrick Collison

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#9. Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

Patrick Collison

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#10. The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

John Collison

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#11. Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

Linda Collison

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#12. When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

John Collison

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#13. 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.

Patrick Collison

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#14. Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.

John Collison

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#15. 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.

John Collison

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#16. You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

John Collison

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#17. My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

John Collison

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#18. Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

John Collison

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#19. Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Linda Collison

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#20. 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.

Patrick Collison

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#21. One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

John Collison

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#22. 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,

Patrick Collison

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#23. 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.

Patrick Collison

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#24. I couldn't dream of a future, I couldn't reliably remember my past.

Linda Collison

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#25. 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.

John Collison

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#26. Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

John Collison

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#27. With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website ... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the website or into a mobile app. That is what all the best businesses care about, so we make it very easy, very fast, very simple and very cheap to do this.

John Collison

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#28. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

John Collison

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#29. 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.

John Collison

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#30. I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

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#31. Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

John Collison

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#32. Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

John Collison

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#33. We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

John Collison

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#34. A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

Bob Newhart

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