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, CEO of Stripe, participated in a fireside chat in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2026, focused on the state of science and metascience. During the discussion, he cited a survey suggesting that a majority of top biomedical scientists would choose a different career path if given the option, and he argued that the scientific ecosystem faces significant bureaucratic and institutional challenges. Collison also stated that he believes the world is in the early stages of emerging from a period of economic stagnation, pointing to recent accelerations in U.S. labor productivity and a reversal in the long-term trend of increasing co-authorship on scientific papers as potential indicators of change. In a separate appearance on September 24, 2026, Collison discussed Stripe's use of Claude Code, an AI coding tool. He said that approximately 55% of Stripe's pull requests now originate as prompts to "Minions," an internal system that orchestrates Claude Code on isolated virtual machines. Collison attributed this adoption to the company's focus on maintaining high reliability while accelerating development, and he estimated that the tool has sped up certain projects by at least sixfold. He also described Stripe's expectation that within three years, most transactions will occur between AI agents, and that the company is preparing its products and infrastructure to support agent-to-agent payments.
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison joined Boris to talk about how Stripe builds with Claude Code. Stripe runs its core APIs at five and a half nines of reliability, and about 55% of its pull requests now start as a prompt to Minions, Stripe's internal tool for orchestrating Claude Code on throwaway VMs. Patrick explains why isolated dev boxes and guardrails built as infrastructure made that possible, how a two-to-three person team shipped Stripe Projects in about two months, and why he thinks code quality at Stripe will be higher in three years, not lower. Have a question? Let us know in the commen…
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, joins Cluny Institute founder and director Luke Burgis at ZOË 2026 for a conversation about beauty, modernism, patronage, and what might come after a century of aesthetic stagnation. Recorded at ZOË 2026, a gathering of the Cluny Institute in Napa, California. Learn more about the Cluny Institute: https://cluny.org *** 0:00 Introduction by Jordan Castro 1:14 Why Contemporary Aesthetics Feels Stuck 5:12 Beauty, Virtue, and the Good Life 7:31 Is Beauty Objective? 10:18 Provocation vs. Beauty in Contemporary Art 12:54 Funding Beauty: Patro…
"If people around you don't think what you're doing is a bit strange, maybe it's not strange enough." — Patrick Collison Patrick Collison (@patrickc ( / patrickc ) ) is chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe (https://stripe.com/) , a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. After experiencing firsthand how difficult it was to set up an online business, Patrick and his brother John ( / collision ) started Stripe in 2010. Their goal was to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive. Today, Stripe powers millions of online…
On this episode of the Knowledge Project Podcast, I chat with Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of the leading online payment processing company, Stripe. If you’ve purchased anything online recently, there’s a good chance that Stripe facilitated the transaction. What is now an organization with over a thousand employees and handling tens of billions of dollars of online purchases every year, began as a small side experiment while Patrick and his brother John were going to college. During our conversation, Patrick shares the details of their unlikely journey and some of the hard-earned w…
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, speaking at Y Combinator Startup School 2012 at Stanford Memorial Auditorium. For some reason, this video is private in YC's playlist, so I found it from the Web Archive and decided to resurface it! In this 2012 talk, Patrick tells the early story of Stripe: how he and John Collison started working on online payments, why developer-focused infrastructure mattered, what made internet payments so broken, and what the first stages of building Stripe actually looked like. This is an archival reupload of a previously public YC Startup School talk s…
Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, explains how Stripe began by solving a painful but overlooked problem: accepting payments online. In this full interview, Patrick talks about the early Stripe API, why online payments were so frustrating for developers, how Stripe got its first users, what they learned from customer feedback, and how a simple product insight became one of the most important developer tools on the internet. Guest: Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe Host: Andrew Warner / Mixergy Topics: Stripe history, startup lessons, online payments, developer tools, product-market…
Stripe now processes more than 25% of all new Delaware incorporations. And according to CEO Patrick Collison, new business ...
Two of tech's most active AI investors will join John and Patrick Collison to discuss how frontier technologies are reshaping the global economy. More information: https://stripesessions.com Register for Stripe Sessions 2027: https://register.stripesessions.com/2027?promocode=s27youtube Opening keynote: https://youtu.be/lIsHZfRl2zw Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy keynote: https://youtu.be/5wGqWRv1Z1s Sam Altman fireside: https://youtu.be/5eouRdDYM2c Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross fireside: https://youtu.be/l9wzs_QIyp0
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman joins Stripe CEO Patrick Collison for a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions. More information: https://stripesessions.com Register for Stripe Sessions 2027: https://register.stripesessions.com/2027?promocode=s27youtube Opening keynote: https://youtu.be/lIsHZfRl2zw Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy keynote: https://youtu.be/5wGqWRv1Z1s Sam Altman fireside: https://youtu.be/5eouRdDYM2c Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross fireside: https://youtu.be/l9wzs_QIyp0
Learn about Stripe products designed for revenue growth. More information: https://stripesessions.com Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy keynote: • Stripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy Sam Altman fireside: • Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Co... Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross fireside: • Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversat... Register for Stripe Sessions 2027: https://register.stripesessions.com/2...
Hear about trends that will shape the next decade of payments and global trade. More information: https://stripesessions.com Register for Stripe Sessions 2027: https://register.stripesessions.com/2... Opening keynote: • Stripe Sessions 2026 | Keynote Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy keynote: • Stripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy Sam Altman fireside: • Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Co... Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross fireside: • Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversat...
“I think we're in the early stages uh of emergence from the great stagnation. That's my best guess. Um so uh global GDP rates have not yet accelerated enormously but we are starting to see some acceleration in the US. We're even seeing some suggestion that labor productivity is starting to grow and you know TFP and some of these kind of basic macro measures. A very interesting time series that I saw recently uh so tho”
“We ran a survey of top biomedical scientists actually many people funded through fast grants. And there's a lot of discussions and debates in science you know at what level should we fund science? Should we fund science more or less? And those are important debates and discussions of course but there's another question you can wonder and ask about of course which is well what science is funded uh uh for any given lev”
“We're thinking about how are all the agents and the Claude Code instances, how are they gonna use Stripe directly themselves, right? And both the Stripe product and just how will they transact more broadly? And so we're just thinking a lot about a world where most transactions, agents are the counterparties on both sides. And so how does an agent sign up for Stripe? How does an agent use Stripe? Is MCP enough? What s”
“Stripe launched 15 years ago, so we have a decade and a half longitudinal time series of firm creation, but Stripe has been fairly popular among developers for a reasonable number of years. And so I think what we see in our time series is some kind of proxy for what's happening in the ecosystem overall. And for example, during March of 2020, we saw a significant acceleration in new business creation on Stripe for kin”
“Until the early 20th century, people and elites, people in positions of decision-making power were broadly motivated by a set of ideals and and beliefs about what should exist and how things should be done. There was a kind of legitimacy to their work. And when the medieval housing stock of London was torn down and replaced with Victorian buildings or Georgian buildings, people thought that that was at least not a gr”
“With Stripe, we simply want to turn payments into a ubiquitous utility. We want more commerce on the internet, but it's still really early days and honestly most of the time we're not thinking about these kinds of problems.”
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