Patrick Collison

Biography

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, advocate for progress studies and economic growth.

"We need to study how to speed up scientific and technological progress."

—Patrick Collison, The Atlantic (2019), July 30, 2019

"The internet economy needs infrastructure that's as reliable as electricity."

—Patrick Collison, Stripe Sessions Keynote (2023), May 1, 2023, San Francisco

"Fast growth is not just good for companies, it's essential for solving global problems."

—Patrick Collison, Conversations with Tyler (2021), March 24, 2021, Episode 127

"GPT-4 is already changing how we write code at Stripe."

—Patrick Collison, Twitter/X (2023), March 15, 2023 Link

"Removing barriers to starting a business is one of the highest-leverage things we can do for economic growth."

—Patrick Collison, Y Combinator Startup School (2022), August 25, 2022