Patrick Collison

CEO, Stripe

Search every verified Patrick Collison interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, spoke at Stripe Sessions in April and May 2026, where he described the current period as "day 119 of the singularity" and stated that the company now serves more than 5 million businesses globally, including 86% of the Forbes AI50 and 90% of companies in the Dow Jones Index. He noted that Stripe's transaction volume is approximately $1.5 trillion, representing about 1.5% of global GDP. Collison reported that the rate of new business creation on Stripe in March 2026 was up nearly 2x year-over-year, a spike he attributed to AI, calling it "a bigger tailwind" than the COVID-19 pandemic. He also discussed the need for "economic infrastructure for AI," including systems for agents to pay and businesses to accept payments from agents, and announced 288 new products aimed at helping businesses as the economy "replatforms around AI." In a conversation with Sam Altman at Stripe Sessions, Collison discussed the trajectory of AI development, stating that "the models got really good especially for coding" starting in late 2025 and early 2026. He also participated in a fireside chat with investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, where he remarked that "this is the slow part of the singularity" because model improvement still requires significant human effort. In an earlier interview with Amjad Masad, Collison suggested that the "minimum efficient size of a serious business is collapsing" and that solopreneurs are scaling to seven figures and beyond, while also noting that AI could lead to rapid disruption due to an "innovator's dilemma on steroids."