“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We wer...” — John Collison Quote

“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.”

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

“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.”

“My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.”

“Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.”

“I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.”