Author: Patrick Collison

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Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

- Patrick Collison

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

- Patrick Collison

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

- Patrick Collison

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

- Patrick Collison

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

- Patrick Collison

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