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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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One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.
- John Collison
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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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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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#Internet
#Reach
Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.
- John Collison
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#Awareness
#Customer
#Look
I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.
- John Collison
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#Valley
If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.
- John Collison
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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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Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.
- John Collison
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#Web
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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Elon Musk is a cool cookie.
- John Collison
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Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.
- John Collison
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#Room
The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.
- John Collison
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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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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
- John Collison
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