Patrick Collison

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

utility function or something is kind of hard to define.

But yeah, I think writing is a pretty, interpersonal communication and writing I think are so very fundamental and sort of being able to reason sensibly in the multi-dimensional space of reality.

And in some kind of indescribable way, I feel like the model is still kind of deficient at that.

And so I've never, I've yet to send, you know,

Every tool is now trying to prompt me with pre-written suggestions, whether it's Gmail or apparently WhatsApp just rolled this out.

And I think I've still sent zero of those in my life.

Yeah, well, I think I have the slightly unusual distinction of having dropped out of college twice to start a company.

So maybe one thing to know is that it's not totally trapdoor.

You can drop out and, in fact, return.

So I dropped out after my freshman semester

start this company with Harge.

That was super fun.

And then after a couple of years of that, went back, did another year at MIT, and then dropped out again to start Stripe.

And when I went to college, probably like a lot of people here,

I had this vision of my life involving becoming an academic, and I really liked physics, and I thought, you know, I'll do all this physics stuff.

It's so cool.

I'd read all the Feynman books, all of this.

And I guess I am... Well, growing up in Ireland, I hadn't thought much about the possibility of startups.

Hello to the other Irish folks here.

And...

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