John Collison
speaker
6,048 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Surprisingly, no, where I think, look, all of me, Patrick, Will, Rob, you know, we're all super bullish on crypto, you know, super bullish on you guys after we met you.
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And so it's not like anyone is like I don't think they would survive the company very long if someone's walking around like, I don't know, I don't think the stablecoin thing is gonna be a thing.
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Um and so
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the debate you're always having is do we build this in house?
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Like for every acquisition there is some price that is too expensive.
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And of course part of the challenge there is early stage startups, it's just like so hard to put a number on things like venture rounds.
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It's like, you know, what is the price?
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Like what people are paying at some level.
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And so you end up
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doing a lot of math and it kinda comes down to some amount of gut feel and yeah.
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Um uh with a lot of spreadsheets backing up that gut feel gut feel.
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Um and a lot of it is a about the um
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the founders and the team because
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What you're buying is nice.
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what already exists.
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Again, it's not like that Oracle late stage, we're gonna buy Cerner and this existing business and customers and everything like that.
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It's like we are going to build the leading crypto infrastructure product together over the coming decade and
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There's just a lot of uncertainty in that.
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So last question.
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Just
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