Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, known for articulating infrastructure-level thinking and incubation logic.
“Radical Numerics | AI for biology | Raised a $50M seed round...Previous investor Patrick Collison also investing.”
Source→“Previous investor Patrick Collison also investing [in Radical Numerics].”
Source→“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.”
Source→“Patrick Collison... Hosted the Stripe Sessions conversation with Altman”
“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.”
Source→“This was our thinking behind incubating Tempo because you're going to need really high throughput blockchains for the agents.”
Source→“Podcast: The a16z Show | Participants: A16Z Narrator, Georgie Hayes, John Collison, Patrick Collison”
Source→“This was our thinking behind incubating Tempo because you're going to need really high throughput blockchains for the agents.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“We talked in the letter about Bridge having operational issues, not because of Bridge, but because of blockchain congestion.”
Source→“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”
“Hemant lingers on those word choices, hopefully, beneficent, because they frame the singularity as an aspiration, not a foregone conclusion.”
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