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" At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company. "

" Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult. "

" 'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal. "

" I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't. "

" If you're building a consumer app, you're necessarily coupled to the intrinsic time cycle of human fashion in that it's a fashion-driven space, and we see that in the cycle of these various apps. I think for infrastructure that that just naturally tends to play out over a longer time horizon. "

" If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time. "

" I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance. "

" I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment. "

" In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network. "

" In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder. "

" In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders. "

" I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition. "

" I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen. "

" It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family. "

" It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge. "

" It's not that I don't enjoy TV. If I had infinite time, I would watch it. "

" It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions. "

" It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged. "

" I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers. "

" One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development. "

" One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do. "

" One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.' "

" Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe. "

" Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire. "

" Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley. "

" Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work. "

" Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that. "

" The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths. "

" The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't. "

" There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies. "

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