Patrick Collison

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?" · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Great to be here.

Harj and I first met 20 years ago, and we started a company together.

Sorry, am I giving away the introduction?

We started a company together many, many years ago, and I learned a huge amount from Harj.

So it's really fun to do this.

Any Lisp programmers here?

Oh wow, okay.

I think I heard one whoop, which is more than I expected.

But yeah, I really liked Lisp when I was in high school.

I don't know.

I wonder a lot.

Yeah, obviously, on the one hand, it used to be really fun to write all this assembly and machine code and to optimize your instructions and layout and memory and everything.

And now we don't have to do that anymore.

Compilers do it for us.

We don't mourn it too much.

And so maybe in the same way, we shouldn't mourn source code.

We should just transcend the plane of instructions to Claudius at all.

But emotionally, I miss it.

I mean, my model of this is...

is cache, you know, the C-H, not an S-H, where Jeff Dean has this famous set of numbers that every programmer should know, bandwidths and latencies and just kind of relevant constants you should have a reason about as you build systems.

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