Patrick Collison

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266 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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

And so Ross would charge the card, and then he would ask a reasonable question like, how can I look at all my charges?

Reasonable request.

And so let's put up a little dashboard here.

And then he'd be like, well, I want to refund a payment.

And all right, we'll build refund support.

And then after a couple of weeks, he was like, at some point, do I get my money?

And we're like, hmm, also a reasonable request.

So let's build that functionality.

So it was very just-in-time development.

Anyway, so we had a production customer from very early.

And then we did increase.

It was in private beta.

We increased the number of customers every single month all the way to that public launch.

And so every week, we had actual customer feedback, requests.

new users coming in.

We're learning things from reality as opposed to our own kind of hypothesized or extrapolated conception of it.

And I think if you have a significant stream like that of grounding, I think it's probably OK to not be like launch, launch.

I mean, you're an expert YC partner.

Do you agree?

Yeah.

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