John Collision – Growing the Internet Economy

The returns to writing well are really high, and it feels like the world hasn't fully internalized that.

If you're operating a technology business, you would be mad not to study all the companies that have gone before you.

New things at 'Stripe' are almost always started by really tiny teams ... It's often easier to get fast work done with a small team versus a large team.

It feels to me like the way we build and deploy software now isn't what it's going to be 10 years from now. In particular, we've actually regressed a little bit—it's harder to build a consumer startup than it was 10 years ago.

As a company grows, their outcome depends on how good of a job they do at pushing resources towards the most productive use.

The Internet economy is a very small fraction of the overall economy—something like 5-7%. The vast majority of economic activity is not internet-enabled.