Patrick Collison

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”