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Introduction
Patrick O
My two guests today are John and Patrick Collison, co-founders of Stripe. My conversation with John in 2020 was, for a long time, our most downloaded episode. In this conversation, we went in a totally different direction, talking about Stripe, the global internet economy, and beyond.
This year, along with John Malone, John and Patrick were recipients of the Singleton Prize, given annually by the Singleton Foundation to active CEOs. The foundation was recognizing John and Patrick as up-and-coming CEOs in the mold of Henry Singleton, who I spent years studying, and who heavily influenced my own thinking on business and investing, both in my quantitative investing days and today.
This was one of those conversations that I went into with tons of topics to cover, only to get through close to zero of them because I became so wrapped up in other interesting topics with two of the smarter people that I've ever encountered. I hope you enjoy this great and wide-ranging conversation with John and Patrick Collison.