“Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of...” — John Collison Quote

Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

I encourage anyone who has a heart for children and the desire to expand their family to consider adoption and make a powerful difference in the life of a child.

Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.