12+ John Collison Quotes On Education, Politics And John Collins

John Collison is an Irish businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and president of Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. He is the world's youngest self-made billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion as of 2020. Following is our collection on famous quotes by John Collison on leadership, education, politics.

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce. — John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. — John Collison

In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back. — 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

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company. — John Collison

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online. — 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

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

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps. — John Collison

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing. — John Collison

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start. — 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

Life Lessons by John Collison

1. John Collison teaches us the importance of hard work and dedication - he started coding at the age of nine and co-founded Stripe at the age of 1
3. He also shows us the value of collaboration - he and his brother Patrick worked together to build Stripe into a successful business.
4. Finally, he demonstrates the power of innovation - Stripe is a revolutionary payment platform that has revolutionised the way businesses process payments.