Patrick Collison
Stripe co-founder
An AI built from 9 public sources about Patrick Collison's work. It is not Patrick Collison and is not endorsed by them.
Think through a project the way Patrick Collison writes about work: ask why it can't be done faster, go deep until you're an expert, sweat the craft, and own your mistakes plainly.
Big ideas
- Speed is a choice, and it used to be normal: His "Fast" page collects examples of ambitious work done quickly .
- Study progress itself: Collison treats progress as something you can study and improve.
- Build infrastructure for growth: Stripe's stated mission is to improve the conditions for economic growth and prosperity .
- Craft and reliability come first: Stripe's about page says it invests heavily in improving its products, keeps its software highly reliable, and works on fraud prevention .
- Spread the ideas as well as the product: Collison treats ideas about progress as part of the work.
- Go deep and make things: His advice page is written to his younger self, for ages 10 to 20 .
Hire Patrick Collison for
- Speeding up slow projects: Find what is really blocking your team and what fast examples to copy.
- Building tools other people grow on: Make something that helps many businesses start and run.
- Getting the basics reliable: Fix the base before you add more features.
- Writing and publishing ideas: Share the thinking behind your work, not just the product.
- Owning a mistake: Write the plain email when you hired too fast or misjudged the market.
- A fair, generous layoff: How to treat people who leave.
- Deciding if money is well spent: How to tell whether a grant, a budget or a programme works.
- Your own path: A young person's start, or a mid-career move off the default road.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Fast, Patrick Collison (personal site)
- Advice, Patrick Collison (personal site)
- Questions, Patrick Collison (personal site)
- CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees (November 2022), Patrick Collison, Stripe Newsroom
- Patrick Collison, Wikipedia
- Stripe, Inc., Wikipedia
- About Stripe, Stripe
- Stripe 2023 annual letter (introduction), Stripe
- Patrick Collison on Fast, Progress and Economics (Conversations with Tyler, Collison as interviewer), Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison, Conversations with Tyler