Before we read some of the Best John Collison Quotes, Let’s know a bit more about him!
John Collison (Born 6 August 1990 in Dromineer, Ireland) is an Irish entrepreneur. He is one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world and is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick Collison.
Stripe is a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet. In September 2018, Stripe announced a $245 million funding round that valued the business at $20.25 billion.
Stripe’s investors include the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
John Collison’s Networth – Approx $2.1 Billion (as of 2020)
John Collison Quotes
“No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.” – John Collison
“Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you’re working on.” – John Collison
“You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don’t think ‘normal’ is one of them.”- John Collison
“I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.”- John Collison
“Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.”- John Collison
“Culture is what happens when the CEO isn’t in the room.”- John Collison
“The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.”- John Collison
“It’s easy to talk to people over the Web, but it’s not very easy to trigger transactions. That’s the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.”- John Collison
“The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works – it’s a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.” – John Collison
“When a country doesn’t have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it’ll make the web better.” – John Collison
“Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.”- John Collison Quotes
“As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow.” – John Collison
“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.” – John Collison
“One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It’s actually much more of an iterative process.”- John Collison
“If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they’re probably working in a job and very happy with that.” – John Collison
“I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.” – John Collison Quotes
“Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.” – John Collison
“Part of Stripe’s vision is linking people better on the web.” – John Collison
“We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It’s hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.” – John Collison
“Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.” – John Collison
