Patrick Collison

“Daytona, a three-year-old San Francisco startup that provides secure cloud computing environments for AI agents to run code, use software, and complete tasks, raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by FirstMark, with Patrick Collison, Adam D'Angelo, Brendan Foody, Tobi Lütke, Olivier Pomel, Aravind Srinivas, Eric Yuan...”

“I have had the good fortune of becoming friends with Patrick and John Collison”

“Stripe cannot tell me what _not_ to write either”

“Do you get a DM from Patrick one day?”

“What's more impressive to you, someone who went to Stanford or someone who is followed by Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, etc. I think most people would say the latter.”

“Others, like Richard Branson of Virgin or Fanatics' Michael Rubin, struggled with traditional schooling, contrasted with Collison's academic strength.”

“Patrick Collison said this once... the reason you should care about craft and attention to detail is that your customers instead of seeing and feeling that will trust you more.”

“Patrick Carlson remarked a few years ago, said, hey, it feels like there's less younger founders today in the way that Zuck, in college, building next Facebook or Gates, in the same way with Microsoft.”

“Five years ago, Patrick Collison interviewed Sam Altman in a podcast. And Patrick was saying, hey, you know, we've been in this era of lean startup... you've raised colossal amounts of money right out the gate. Is that underrated?”

“I've actually come to the conclusion that giving founders more control over their life's work, which is what it is, is an acceptable price to pay to incent them to go public, right? So I've actually changed my opinion on that. I actually think, even though some of these control things are weird... weird control terms are an acceptable part, because otherwise everyone just does what the Collisons are doing and says private.”

“I've actually come to the conclusion that giving founders more control over their life's work, which is what it is, is an acceptable price to pay to incent them to go public... Otherwise everyone just does what the Collisons are doing and says private.”

“We're fine. Yes, you can ask the agent or something to compute something for you or to look something up for you. That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache.”

“As I speak, the number of new businesses starting on Stripe is up around 2x year over year, which again is the largest relative jump we've seen... the median business is doing better this year than a year ago... the time to revenue for new companies is declining.”

“Google seemed omnipotent and had this immense number of incredibly talented people and essentially infinite access to capital... And just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities”

“Jeff Dean has this famous set of numbers that every programmer should know, bandwidths and latencies and just kind of relevant constants you use to reason about it as you build systems.”

“They basically signed up all the AI companies that are selling shit online. And they shouldn't be getting anything like the money they're probably getting from the OpenAIs and Anthropics in terms of interchange fees. But who's got time to optimize that stuff?”

“Patrick was like, I think we should keep it in Stripe. And his — one of the reasons was we want to shepherd this for the long run. And the other reason was that we can pay people tech salaries while working on this. And so we're going to be able to attract better people. And I think that like those are very non-consensus things to like approaches to philanthropy. And they really make a difference.”

“He's doing this stuff with Tyler or whatever, which is another nice example of sort of like downstream of the problem, figure out whatever.”

“I think my views and Patrick's views are actually pretty different. So when people say these two tech guys, like I'm not even that.”

“Radical Numerics | AI for biology | Raised a $50M seed round...Previous investor Patrick Collison also investing.”

“Previous investor Patrick Collison also investing [in Radical Numerics].”

“I've spent more time than I care to think about talking to Patrick about the floral arrangements at Stripe offices and the smell of Stripe offices. Like, not actually a joke.”

“Patrick Collison... Hosted the Stripe Sessions conversation with Altman”

“Where we think things will go is just there will be a huge amount of agentic commerce... And that is what unites stablecoins and AI, because we think you're going to need blockchains and better blockchains.”

“This was our thinking behind incubating Tempo because you're going to need really high throughput blockchains for the agents.”

“This was our thinking behind incubating Tempo because you're going to need really high throughput blockchains for the agents.”

“Podcast: The a16z Show | Participants: A16Z Narrator, Georgie Hayes, John Collison, Patrick Collison”

“We talked in the letter about Bridge having operational issues, not because of Bridge, but because of blockchain congestion. Where you have blockchains both used for meme coin trading and also serious real world payments.”

“We talked in the letter about Bridge having operational issues, not because of Bridge, but because of blockchain congestion.”

“Hemant lingers on those word choices, hopefully, beneficent, because they frame the singularity as an aspiration, not a foregone conclusion.”

“The Collisons' 2026 Stripe letter, reporting 700+ AI agent companies launching on the platform in a single year, is used as primary evidence for the 'beneficent singularity' framing”