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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.

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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Businessman

Born: September 9th, 1988

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