John Collison
John Collison
John Collisonis an Irish student and entrepreneur. He is most well known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick Collison...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIreland
nature tend
Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.
best businesses care cheap integrate mobile offer people send simple website whereas
With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the website or into a mobile app. That is what all the best businesses care about, so we make it very easy, very fast, very simple and very cheap to do this.
starting-out nimble size
Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.
stripes online hard
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.
stripes legacy cards
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.
technology ideas people
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.