“We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.” — John Collison Quote

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the website or into a mobile app. That is what all the best businesses care about, so we make it very easy, very fast, very simple and very cheap to do this.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.