John Collison
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
John Collison reads as The Visionary because he recognised, as a teenager, that the internet's commercial layer was broken and built Stripe to fix it at civilisational scale. As co-founder and president, he articulates a future where economic infrastructure runs as seamlessly as electricity, and he has pursued that conviction through product decisions, global expansion, and deliberate patience on valuation. His thinking moves fluently between the philosophical and the precise, the visionary's signature.
“public companies are suited for the extract stage of the sigmoid curve rather than the expand stage. And Stripe is still growing very quickly reinvesting in new products.”
“Being in a domain teaches you about that domain if you're willing to pay attention, and a lot of business success can come from listening to what the market is trying to tell you.”
“We think there could be more internet commerce, more successful internet companies created, if we lowered the cost of doing so. We're taking that core idea really, really seriously.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “John Collison”
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