John Collison
Co-founder and President of Stripe, known for product instincts and long-term thinking.
“John and I were in college together. He was in his freshman year and we went to Startup School in 2009... and it was walking back that evening after Startup School that we decided to start Stripe.”
Source→“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?”
Source→“I feel like there's at least a reasonable chance that 2026 Q1 will be looked back upon as the first quarter of the singularity.”
Source→“Podcast: The a16z Show | Participants: A16Z Narrator, Georgie Hayes, John Collison, Patrick Collison”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.