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Invest Like the Best · October 17, 2023 · 71m
Patrick Collison & John Collison: A Business State of Mind
The Collison brothers discuss Stripe's evolution, their approach to building infrastructure, why they focus on increasing the GDP of the internet, and the importance of speed and taste in building products.
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Patrick Collison argues that the measure of great infrastructure is that users stop thinking about it. Stripe succeeded because it made online payments so easy that developers could integrate them in minutes, making the complexity of payments invisible.
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Progress is not automatic — it requires active cultivation and can stagnate even in wealthy, educated societies
Collison discusses his work on progress studies: the rate of scientific and technological progress is not constant or guaranteed. It requires specific institutional structures, incentive designs, and cultural values that can erode.Was this useful?