John Collison

@collision251k followers

Co-founder of @stripe.

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1Apr 25, '24Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist an120×4.2M8.3k1.8k1.4k
2May 25, '22As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *ev98.1×064k12k9.7k
3Nov 11, '25Dave Ricks has been at @EliLillyandCo for 20% of its 150-year history. He came to the pub, poured his own Guinness, and gave us a 2-hour state of the pharma union: drug prices, cli56.8×2M4.2k5684.3k
4Jul 9, '25Pieter Levels (@levelsio) and I sat down over a pint to talk about how he’s making $3m a year as a one-person company, what Europe can do to spur economic growth, and his experienc38.2×1.3M3.7k2814.9k
5Oct 1, '25Marc Andreessen on Cheeky Pint. Please do not attempt at 2x speed.26.6×935k2.8k1883.1k
6Oct 22, '25Dan Sundheim is one of the smartest stock pickers in the public markets. He joins @danielgross and me on Cheeky Pint to discuss their way of analysing businesses, how he makes 95% 24.6×866k1.9k1573.1k
7Oct 25, '25I wrote a piece for the @IrishTimes on why Ireland can’t build anything these days, and how to fix that.21.9×769k2.2k225318
8Jun 18, '25Susan Li is CFO of Meta and has never(!!) done a podcast. We talked about AI capex, whether your baseball hat should say FCF or EBITDA, how Meta allocates GPUs, and working with Ma17.4×612k2.6k2293.2k
9Nov 20, '24We need a total and complete shutdown of branding agencies until we can figure out what's going on.17.1×601k4.9k201191
10Dec 5, '23The new Poor Charlie’s Almanack launches today. Before Charlie passed, I had the opportunity to sit down and ask the many questions I had for him. I love how much he pulls from bus15.5×547k1.3k125603
11Jun 17, '25One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for 14.1×497k2.3k98654
12Feb 16, '23Happy to announce that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have been updated for 2023! 1. I will not harm you unless you harm me first. 😊12.2×429k9225422
13Mar 13, '24Stripe’s 2023 annual letter is here! Lots of detail on what we’re seeing across the internet economy, including a robust startup ecosystem despite the VC pullback.11.5×406k664123390
14Aug 27, '25Maths savant turned @cognition founder @ScottWu46 joins me to discuss their AI software engineer, acquiring Windsurf over a weekend, the Moneyball-ification of everything, math con9.8×346k1.1k931k
15Aug 6, '25Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time. @DarioAmodei and I chatted about flying past $5b in ARR, Anthropic's focus on B2B, payback economics of individual m9.8×345k1.7k1711.6k
16Oct 7, '24Makes sense that Ireland is prioritising *checks notes* the Donnybrook Lawn Tennis Club not being overlooked ahead of 225 future students.9.3×326k2.1k11056
17Apr 23, '25Web search functionality has, in a way, made LLMs worse to use. "That's a great question. I'm a superintelligence but let me just check with some SEO articles to be sure."8.6×301k2.7k120212
18Oct 21, '25Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: Dan Sundheim, an investing savant who never goes on podcasts, with @danielgross and me.8.1×284k82533627
19Mar 10, '22Stripe now supports crypto businesses: exchanges, on-ramps, wallets, and NFT marketplaces. Not just pay-ins but payouts, KYC and identity verification, fraud prevention, and lots m7.6×04.6k959342
20Jan 23, '23Today, Stripe takes its decade-long partnership with Amazon to the next level. We’re now expanding our collaboration to power global payments for Prime, @audible_com, @AmazonKindle7.0×245k8839646
21Jul 15, '24Lots of firms say that they're long-term oriented, but Sequoia actually is. 14 years after their first check in Stripe, they're making their largest investment yet. (This is a seco6.8×241k71944143
22May 31, '24How it started / how it’s going6.4×226k1.8k8098
23Aug 13, '25In our latest Cheeky Pint, @vladtenev of Robinhood and I discussed hoarding Bulgarian copper pots, his pitch to tokenise private stocks, how Michael Lewis got Flash Boys wrong, Vla6.2×217k72881565
24Jan 19, '25I can't wait for Audible x AI voice models where you can interrupt non-fiction books to ask questions.5.3×188k2.3k147334
25May 6, '22Patrick shared this note internally about the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle. Glad to put it behind us, and I'm look forward to continued vibrant competition in fintech (whi5.2×03.4k225775
26May 8, '25Here's the full interview with Mark Zuckerberg at @stripe Sessions this week, talking about how AI is shaping Meta's products, Mark's perspectives on leadership, and stablecoins.5.0×177k1.1k1081.3k
27Mar 10, '25How does everyone manage state in the little personal apps they're vibe coding? If you believe AI software butlers will happen, there's a need for a product here. You want basic sy5.0×176k96127670
28Aug 12, '25What it feels like to select o3 in the Legacy Models menu.4.8×170k3.6k125210
29Oct 3, '23Poor Charlie's Almanack (the newest edition!) is available for pre-order now through @stripepress for $30. It would be a false economy to scroll past this without buying it.4.6×161k67863190
30Feb 7, '22Anyone who thinks that AI can't have free will hasn't attempted to use AirPods with multiple devices.4.4×04.3k24351
31Apr 17, '24Before Stripe had a real office, our "conference room" was Fraiche Yoghurt on Emerson Street in Palo Alto. We took our customer and investor meetings in the cosy private booth ther4.4×154k2k50117
32Aug 26, '25Dropping tomorrow: a Cheeky Pint with @ScottWu46. (We also talked about Cognition and Windsurf and didn't just do math puzzles the whole time.) Subscribe for this and future episod4.1×144k1.1k46300
33Jun 10, '22Stan Druckenmiller and I talk about historical analogues for today’s inflation, knowing whether you’re running hot or cold, Bitcoin, and more.4.1×01.8k286952
34Oct 14, '25Rivian went from being “laughed out of the room” to making the bestselling premium SUV in California within the span of a decade. @RJScaringe tells the story of creating a $16b all4.0×141k74058377
35Sep 29, '25We're working with @OpenAI to offer native purchases directly in ChatGPT. It's really cool, and feels like a template for where much commerce will go:3.9×136k7293392
36Aug 13, '25Wow, Google shipped a super speedy improvement to duplicating events in Google Calendar. Thank you @sundarpichai! ☺️3.6×128k1.2k2842
37Apr 25, '25.@patrickc when I ask him how much staffing his new product idea will need3.4×121k1.6k28161
38Sep 22, '25Testing out Apple Intelligence. He's a bit introverted but I wouldn't call him a Corn Plant personally.3.4×120k1.7k1979
39Sep 30, '25Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: @pmarca and Charlie Songhurst3.4×119k1.3k50551
41Jan 13, '25If you're in your early 20s, buy a Stripe car. Go into debt if you have to.3.3×115k9271244
42Oct 12, '21Stripe and crypto have grown up at the same time; we started writing code the year after the Bitcoin paper dropped. We’ve always kept an eye on things (e.g. bitcoin support 2013-203.2×02.6k249114
43Jan 28, '22Really hoping @RTE The Den comes back. Otherwise, how will the youth of today get culturally significant content like this?2.9×02.7k101100
44Oct 10, '25Yesterday we opened the new @stripe Dublin office along the Grand Canal at Wilton Park. This space is 3x the size of our old office and gives us tons of room to grow our dual headq2.7×94k1.3k3458
46Jul 26, '25Find someone who loves you the way o3 loves putting information in little tables.2.5×90k1.5k4666
47Nov 28, '23We lost an icon today. Charlie was a business genius and spent many decades sharing his wisdom with future generations. RIP.2.3×82k9884727
49Jun 18, '25In my new capacity as a podcaster, I must entreat you not to forget to like and subscribe.2.1×73k1k1130
50Apr 8, '22This year, we decided to publish our annual letter to all of Stripe's users2.0×01.2k148323
51Jun 2, '25Every time I’m in the UK countryside, I’m struck by what an incredible amenity the dense network of walking trails is. I wish we were pursuing with more vigour creating new walking1.9×68k1k3068
52Feb 11, '22On the street in Palo Alto, I was approached by a Dalek-like self-driving self-announcing robot selling cookies via contactless payments. I had forgotten how fun Palo Alto’s startu1.5×01.4k4234
53Feb 8, '22A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, a breakthrough Internet communications device, and a contactless card reader. An iPod, a phone, an Internet com1.4×01.3k6828
54Jan 25, '22Spotify + Stripe = creator economy goodness! 🎙💸1.2×08739473
55Feb 20, '22We need to color in Ireland a bit more!1.0×0841878

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