John Collison
Co-founder of Stripe, which he started with his brother Patrick Collison.
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Everything around us exists because someone pushed it through with tenacity: the world is a museum of passion projects.
As 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 *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
x.comSaid 25 May 2022This on korrents
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Everything around us exists because someone pushed it through with tenacity: the world is a museum of passion projects.
As 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 *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
@collision on X Said 25 May 2022
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x.com @collision Short-form on Stripe, building things and the people who make them.
Short posts and replies from Stripe's co-founder: payments and the internet economy, books and infrastructure, and the occasional observation about how things get built.
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