Patrick Collison

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, Inc.

Personal website - patrickcollison.com

twitter.com/patrickc

linkedin.com/in/patrickcollison

Patrick Collison on Wikipedia

 

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Running your company by Patrick Collison

Published on Oct 3, 2018

YC Partner Adora Cheung, along with Patrick Collison, the founder of well known YC alumnus Stripe, discuss how to most effectively run a startup company towards success.

 

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Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions

Jul 15, 2025

Michael Truell (CEO of Cursor) sits down with Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe) to discuss programming languages, the role of AI in programming, and building long-lasting software.

00:00 Patrick's first startup in Smalltalk
03:35 LISP chatbots
06:09 Ideas from esoteric programming languages
09:12 Bret Victor and Dynamicland
16:37 Programming human organizations
20:28 Codebase's "Big Bang" and MongoDB
25:49 Rewriting Stripe
32:00 How do you, Patrick Collison, use AI?
38:25 Changes to GDP/TFP
41:56 Programming human biology
46:10 Unexpected beneficiaries of AI

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