John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Whereas maybe the um
The IP could be in a a single model over time.
Where I thought you were going to go with that is just maybe the, you know, people point out a lot that current companies are modeled after, you know, manufacturing companies and Alfred Sloan type uh uh stuff, despite the fact that, you know, we're doing knowledge work today and not running a little manufacturing line.
And do you get more just weird-looking companies?
Do you get the you know the famous really tiny billion dollar company?
Do you get more highly distributed internet companies?
Do you get some DAOs?
I thought that's where you're gonna go with that, but maybe.
Yeah.
okay, it's funny you say this because Stripe.
Stripe is interesting because it does not really have strong network effects as a company.
You know, when we started building up Stripe, it was very much a single-player API experience.
And we make it easy to start using Stripe.
But ultimately, you kind of you'd never know that anyone else was using Stripe.
What's happened as we've scaled up is we now just have a trust network where we can prevent fraud by virtue of the fact that we've seen most internet.
users.
And so we have a knowledge for what good and bad looks like.
And even the fact that we haven't seen you before.
Is inherently a little bit suspicious.
Because we've seen a we we've seen most people, and so it becomes a reputation network.
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