My favorite thing about the Collisons is how down to earth they seem in spite of their incredible success. And that humility seems to permeate throughout the corporate culture of the company as well. I have not seen a single comment on HN by a Stripe that broke that image.<p>And it's not a PR-designed-totally-artificial-image like Sheryl Sandberg. But they seem to be the real deal.<p>Wish you guys the best!
Anyone would know stripe's plan for cryptocurrencies?<p>They've invested in stellar[1] in 2014, a blockchain network that facilitate to move money more easily. And then stopped bitcoin support in 2018[2]. Then no news. I'm wondering if the efforts were only pushed by @gdb[3], then when he left (now openAI's CTO), they've somehow lost interest ? I'm really curious about what they think internally.<p>[1] <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/stellar" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/blog/stellar</a><p>[2] <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support</a><p>[3] <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=bitcoin%20OR%20stellar(from%3Agdb)&src=typed_query&f=live" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/search?q=bitcoin%20OR%20stellar(from%3Ag...</a>
The Collisons are totally like the Weasely twins from Harry Potter. Brothers, funny, good natured, smart, entrepreneurial and at least one is red headed.
This interview with John Collison is very timely for me. My little "holiday" project of these days is to work on a memo on corporate strategy that I intend to submit to John for review. Who knows, maybe an opportunity will arise from it.<p>After doing some work and some digging on Stripe (despite I knew the company quite well already), I completely agree that there's still a ton of opportunities for them to expand.<p>It's actually hard to select a single expansion opportunity, as there are too many to pick from. Well, as said, a nice holiday project.<p>p.s. if you're willing to help me with some ideas, email me ($my_hn_name at gmail) and I'll happily share the document with you, as long as you can promise to be nice and not share it elsewhere.<p>edit: not sure why the downvotes?
I love Stripe and everything about it: their main product, docs, website, risk-taking with new products. They are one of the very, very few net-positive VC-backed companies to come out of Silicon Valley. I'm going to be sad when they go public though and things inevitably start changing for the worst. I hope the 2 brothers stay active with the company and continue to steer it in a good direction even when all the shareholders are breathing down their necks.