Patrick Collison
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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It's a good question.
I think probably in the era of AI, I mean, I don't know.
And to some extent, YC will be, I think, the expert here.
But the whole kind of traditional lean startup doctrine of exactly what you say, like start out by buying the Google ads or something and identify this crevice or whatever and iteratively expand out from that.
I think you can certainly imagine that that becomes much more competitive and much more aggressively tilled.
And it's kind of hard to find those little niches.
The internet's a much bigger place than it was 20 years ago when some of those ideas emerged.
Whereas taking these really divergent starting points where nobody else is trying to
occupy that territory is maybe a more... Maybe you have to more aggressively de-correlate in the era of AI.
And I think it is interesting to think about many of the companies that are most successful over the last 10 years, so many of them are a very anti-lean startup, right?
Whether it's the labs themselves or Anduril or...
You can go down the list.
A lot of them have this characteristic.
Maybe a better way of saying it is 20 years ago, the whole lean startup thing was almost the only thing to do because of capital available and you didn't have AI that made spinning up an organization with many different potentialities and capabilities so much easier.
Whereas now, I think you can start these much more aggressive and ambitious things up front.
Yeah, I mean, look, in any company, there's a bunch of stuff that's not that rewarding or in and of itself all that interesting.
Like setting up payroll, no one sort of starts a company so that you can set up payroll.
And certainly building business and financial services, there's all sorts of more arcane and extensive versions of that.
I think that I actually feel extremely lucky with Stripe in this respect.
And I think this is something, I don't know if you need to think about it that much upfront, but I think once you think about it, maybe before you raise a significant amount of money,
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