John Collison @collision

Co-founder of @stripe. johncollison.ie California / Ireland Joined April 2007

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John Collison @collision

2 days ago

@RyanMcD60266134 Yes it has gotten safer over time. At the same time, the most recent airshow F-18 hull loss was this year.

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There are plenty of airshow accidents (with crowd fatalities) to study and the Blue Angels have a 10% career fatality rate. You can both celebrate military aviation and require following rules that are written in blood.

Barstool Sports @barstoolsports

2 days ago

One second you’re getting a nice tan, the next second the Blue Angels are buzzing by 5 feet from your head 🇺🇸

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Stripe @stripe

a week ago

The share of solopreneurs earning over $1M in revenue has more than tripled between 2021 and 2025.

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John Collison @collision

a week ago

It’s really good — feels like the moment where the voice modality for AI apps will finally take off. Upgrade to the latest version of the ChatGPT App to get it. (Also great launch video.)

OpenAI @OpenAI

a week ago

Introducing GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction. Rolling out in ChatGPT starting today. You’ll want to turn the sound on for this one.

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Alfred Wahlforss @itsalfredw

2 weeks ago

Our intern just built the first zero-person company. Listen's agent ran a loop: - Interview users - Build - Test with real people - Fix issues - Repeat 2,000 interviews and 100 concepts later: an app with 100s of paying customers. Here’s how it works:

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Patrick Collison @patrickc

2 weeks ago

I've been enjoying Victoria Whitworth's new work, The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma. I've actually never seen the Book of Kells in person, somewhat to my embarrassment. I've been doing some reading about the origins of Christianity this year, however, and I figured I should know something about the most famous Irish manuscript. (Perhaps the most famous manuscript, full stop.) Reading the book, I was struck by how much the contents have suffered over the past ~1200 years (enduring everything from water damage to reckless malfeasance in attempted nineteenth century restoration), and I wondered whether AI could help give a sense for how the work might originally have appeared. I downloaded the Internet Archive's PDF and asked my friendly neighborhood agent to use gpt-image-2 to render each page the way it imagines it might have originally appeared. Remarkably, this all worked with a single prompt, with the agent spinning up 48 workers, since each page took a minute or two. (I'm sure that someone wiser than me could prompt the model better, ensuring somewhat more historical accuracy in color restoration and so forth. There is no gold leaf in the Book of Kells!) This part of the project went from conception to completion before I'd finished my morning coffee. I then wanted some easy way to view the results online, so I asked Stripe Projects (projects.dev) to host the result on Vercel. That also worked in basically a single prompt: bookofkells.vercel.app. I also figured that people might want an easy way to download the full PDF of updated images, but it's a large (~200MB) file, so I decided that I should charge $0.10 to cover bandwidth costs using @MPP. I asked my agent to set this up, and it basically worked smoothly, though I had to tell it what MPP is (I guess it's not yet in the pretrain) and also manually set up the Cloudflare account that actually hosts the PDF and configure the API key. (Vercel seemingly has a 100MB limit.) The purchases now show up in my Stripe account alongside all other activity. The site now has a ready-made agent prompt for anyone who wants to download the whole thing. I'm guessing that we'll see a lot more UIs like this in the future. I remain pretty intrigued by the intersection of agents, micropayments, and stablecoins. I don't know much about managing crypto wallets from the CLI, but now AI can do that for me, while Stripe seamlessly handles turning it all back into fiat. So what is the moral of the story? • Whitworth's book is very good, and you should buy it. • The Internet Archive continues to be wonderful and a civilizational treasure. • While there are rough edges, setting up third-party services via the CLI now basically works. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bothered with any of this if I couldn't have outsourced almost all of the work to AI. • The image models have gotten very good. • There will probably continue to be all kinds of interesting applications of AI to history. (The Vesuvius Challenge of course being a shining pioneer.) • These days, I often find myself building single-use sites for things I'm learning or for books I'm reading. I think this is a cool new category of software.

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Patrick Collison @patrickc

3 weeks ago

Delighted to partner with Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Cloudflare, Google, and many others, to introduce Open Standard, a new stablecoin designed for scale: joinopenstandard.com.

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John Collison @collision

3 weeks ago

@RJScaringe what do you think?

kartik @sathaxe

3 weeks ago

we've done it before, we can do it again.

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John Collison @collision

3 weeks ago

The launch blogpost is worth reading: interceptfund.substack.com/p/ending-respi…

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John Collison @collision

3 weeks ago

We're launching Intercept, a new philanthropic initiative to fight respiratory viruses like colds and flus. interceptfund.com

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Patrick Collison @patrickc

4 weeks ago

Very early experiment but I think this will be cool. stripe.directory.

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John Collison @collision

4 weeks ago

Delighted for @eileenomara to become Stripe’s Vice Chair and @tybryson our Chief Revenue Officer. The internet economy is entering a period of significant change. Eileen will work with policymakers, officials, and leaders at Stripe’s customers and partners to advance entrepreneurship and increase economic dynamism globally.

Eileen O'Mara @eileenomara

4 weeks ago

After seven extraordinary years building Stripe's go-to-market engine, I'm stepping into a new role: Vice Chair of @stripe. As Vice Chair, I'll represent the company with business, government, and policy leaders around the world, alongside @patrickc and @collision. The internet

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John Collison @collision

4 weeks ago

Ireland has ended up a vetocracy.

Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler

4 weeks ago

Breaking: Manna to cease drone delivery flights in Ireland, blaming planners and regulatory haze. Will focus abroad (incl US, UK, Europe) instead, it says. Jobs likely lost but R&D centre will stay in Dublin independent.ie/business/manna…

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John Collison @collision

a month ago

@tobi @Shopify Congrats @jdewitt29 and Shopify!

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Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit

a month ago

First day on the job and the CEO already trusts me to go get apple gift cards for him

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John Collison @collision

a month ago

Congrats @destraynor, @eoghan and the entire Fin / Intercom team! Very well deserved for impressive execution.

Eoghan McCabe @eoghan

a month ago

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation

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John Collison @collision

a month ago

Helicopters can actually fly even after losing the tail rotor so long as they have some forward airspeed -- the aerodynamics make it want to weathervane into the wind. Losing the tail rotor in cruise flight is a solvable problem. Losing the tail rotor in the hover is more dramatic, though people also walk away from many of those videos you see on YouTube.

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Matt Slotnick @matt_slotnick

a month ago

seems like an overreaction. it’s just an $85B offering and they do need to ramp capex to remain competitive. the dilution is minimal

Matt Brown @maattttbrown

a month ago

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @SFGate shortly