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Lenny's Podcast · February 15, 2024 · 90m
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison on scaling Stripe from 2 to 8,000 people. Reading as the foundation of strategy. Why Stripe thinks in decades, not quarters. How the Collisons maintained startup intensity at enterprise scale.
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Collison: his reading list (publicly shared, spanning economics, history, and science) shaped Stripe's strategic ambition. Stripe doesn't just process payments — it builds economic infrastructure, a vision that came from reading institutional history.
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Collison: Stripe launched when e-commerce was exploding but payment integration was still terrible. Lucky timing — but the Collisons had spent years as teenage entrepreneurs understanding exactly why payments were broken.
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