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Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11)
youtube.comIn 2005, sixteen-year-old Patrick Collison (Patrick is the cofounder of Stripe) did what many high school nerds do and participated in the Young Scientist Of The Year competition. As a young teen, he leveraged it to build his app "Isaac" (his entry to the competition). Isaac is what we would call today a chatbot….in 2005, chatbots weren't a thing….... See more
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Sohn 2023 | Patrick Collison in conversation Sam Altman
youtube.comTake the Collison brothers, Patrick and John. As teenagers, the two founded Auctomatic, an auction-management system for power sellers on eBay. They brought the idea to Y Combinator in the winter of 2007 and raised a small seed round from investors including Chris Sacca and Paul Buchheit. Ten months after incorporating, Auctomatic was acquired by a
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Patrick Collison on Stripe:
“My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons.
Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only ... See more
-Stripe processed $640 billion+ in payments in 2021, up 60% - 1,400 new companies (and 100 nonprofits) joined Stripe each DAY last year- 100 businesses every day passed the milestone of $1 million in lifetime sales on Stripe.- 7000 on staff now