A Quote by John Collison

Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

John Collison

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Better Linking Part People Stripe Vision Web

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John Collison
Irish - Businessman
Born: 1990

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

John Collison

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd 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.

John Collison

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.

John Collison

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Katie Hafner

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.

John Collison

It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.

John Collison

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Tim Berners-Lee

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

Ravi Subramanian

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

Mike McCue

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Mary Jo Salter

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

Molly Holzschlag

The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.

George Siemens

One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'

Patrick Collison

The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it.