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Patrick Collison

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Patrick Collison

@patrickc

@Stripe CEO, @ArcInstitute cofounder.

Joined April 2007

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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
May 25
Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on
A Call for New Aesthetics
From newaesthetics.art
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Nov 29, 2021
Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats, @paraga!)
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Nov 27, 2024
Great to be back in Tel Aviv. I missed this run.
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
May 21, 2020
"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." —@natfriedman
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Apr 4, 2019
I recently drove a @Tesla for the first time (yes, late to the party), and it is truly an amazing car. So many details are *years* ahead of everyone else. Genuinely inspiring to see how much improvement can be conjured by a small group of dedicated outsiders.
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Jan 12, 2020
I asked Tony Fadell about the iPod timeline for my fast project page. Summary: 😯.
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Sep 9, 2024
Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in
Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
Sep 9, 2024
Dear Mario Draghi, a year ago, I asked you to prepare a report on the future of Europe’s competitiveness. No one was better placed than you to take up this challenge. Now, we are eager to listen to your views ↓ x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Jan 10, 2022
In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, and that this will be a big tailwind for the world over the next decade.
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Oct 2, 2025
I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for 16 years
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Jun 30, 2020
As a US business (and tech) community, I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government against its own people.
China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization
From apnews.com
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Mar 23, 2025
This week, a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are, on average, noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard, of course, just added a remedial math class, Math MA5, "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students".
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Jun 13, 2019
Some day, AI will get so advanced that Google Docs will *automatically* switch to the account has access to the document.
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Nov 19, 2021
WTA braver than NBA.
wta
@WTA
Nov 18, 2021
#WhereIsPengShuai
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Apr 24, 2015
So my working theory is that if you assemble enough enterprise software ads, an airport spontaneously forms around them.