I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment. Patrick Collison More Quotes by Patrick Collison More Quotes From Patrick Collison In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network. Patrick Collison nevergreatknowway 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 computersmefriendstime Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe. Patrick Collison definitelyoursellgoal At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company. Patrick Collison largeveryyoucompany Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult. Patrick Collison stopyouhorizontime One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development. Patrick Collison newmyselflanguagetime I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen. Patrick Collison futuretechnologybelievepeople If you're building a consumer app, you're necessarily coupled to the intrinsic time cycle of human fashion in that it's a fashion-driven space, and we see that in the cycle of these various apps. I think for infrastructure that that just naturally tends to play out over a longer time horizon. Patrick Collison youfashionspacetime I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition. Patrick Collison moneybrothertogetherschool It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family. Patrick Collison friendyoufamilyteam
