Patrick Collison
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266 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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You know, you always worry naturally about possibility of failure and, you know, what will happen if you fail and how to mitigate and avoid failure and all those things.
I think you need to ask the sort of converse of that.
What if you succeed?
And, you know, you raise money and you have customers and you have employees and a whole thing.
Like, are you gonna enjoy that?
Are you gonna want to work on that for 10 years, for 17 years, for 30 years?
I mean, Larry Ellison at Oracle is going for, I mean, I guess it'll be a half century soon, right?
So, you know, what if you succeed?
And in the case of Stripe,
I really love it because we're working with the world's most interesting and innovative companies.
25% of all Delaware corporations are started with Stripe via Atlas.
And then we get to partner with them and work with them and hear from them and get their feedback and get their requests and everything through the entirety of the journey up to being the Shopify's and the OpenAI's and all the...
the standout successes.
Oh, and actually, speaking of Atlas, we're giving free Atlas incorporation to everybody at Startup School.
Nice.
If you are struck by the urge to found something over dinner this evening, as we were, just email startupschoolatstripe.com, and we will get you your link for a free antlers.
But yeah, I think PG latched onto something where, yeah, there are all these menial tasks, but in the totality of Stripe, I find it so...
Interesting.
Like, every business is a kind of applied theory on how some aspect of the world works or how some market works or how some... If the new company with a new model, it's kind of a contrarian thesis on some counterfactual... I've never met a Stripe customer and thought, that's boring.
So it's actually... The business as a whole has been the opposite of the Schlepp blindness instinct.
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