Patrick Collison

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

They'd be like, I heard that X company got to a million dollars of revenue.

And now, I mean...

I think it's really the dynamic you just mentioned, which is businesses everywhere

are more spring-loaded to adapt and to try new things.

And they have a real terror of being left behind with archaic and antiquated ways of operating.

And so in normal times, you're a new startup, you have some mechanism for doing whatever, and you pitch the CIO or the CTO or the whoever at some company, and they kind of,

don't want to talk to you because your thing is not validated, maybe you won't be around in two years, all the kind of obvious objections.

But now people know that, well, the risk of the status quo is actually extremely high.

And so even if there's risk in doing all the new things, well,

this path also looks pretty dangerous.

And so I really think there's never been a better time for startups to sell and to have their products get adopted at a pretty meaningful scale right out of the gate.

A lot of YC companies in recent times have demonstrated this, but I think it's a really pervasive dynamic.

And there's a bit of it, I think also, I mean, Stripe is not a consumer company, obviously, but I think there's some version of this on the consumer side where I think consumers are also pretty, I mean,

Consumers have complicated views on AI, and maybe they don't want the data centers, but people are very intrigued by the product, and I think there is a kind of, they're kind of beguiled by them, and there's a predisposition and an openness to experimenting with the new.

I mean, there's a fear that AI is going to be this hegemonic, centralizing, totalizing force where a small number of companies gobble up a very large share of the economy.

many companies at the forefront of AI have done incredibly well and I think will continue to do incredibly well for sure.

But basically we can see at Stripe the hunger and the intensity with which other companies are either getting started taking advantage of these new capabilities or existing companies are retooling

I don't worry about the centralization in the same way.

I think there are going to be many thousands of winners.

And again, we try not to offer any definitive prognostications because the future is not predetermined.

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