schema: stripe-history/appearances/v1 appearances: - id: appearance-2025-05-patrick-john-collison-sessions-ama occurred_at: 2025-05 date_precision: month title: AMA with Patrick and John Collison venue: Stripe Sessions series: Sessions 2025 participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: speaker - name: John Collison role: speaker media: [video, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-7db75f16638fc07f166c topics: [stablecoins, payment-methods, ai, product-strategy, company-building] historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2025] significance: Patrick and John answer customer questions about stablecoin adoption, local payment methods, AI, product strategy, and what they would change if they were building Stripe again. source_ids: [source-7db75f16638fc07f166c] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2025-03-patrick-collison-congress-testimony occurred_at: 2025-03-11 date_precision: day published_at: 2025-03-11 title: Testimony on payment stablecoins and central bank digital currency venue: United States House Committee on Financial Services participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: witness media: [testimony, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-bbf6b0fb0b8942bc569f topics: [stablecoins, payments, regulation, bridge, payment-volume] historical_periods: [stripe-2010-2025] significance: Patrick's written congressional testimony gives a first-person account of Stripe's founding, scale, payment-method coverage, Bridge acquisition, and policy case for stablecoins. source_ids: [source-18cef128fcb5c9083568, source-bbf6b0fb0b8942bc569f] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2024-04-patrick-john-collison-sessions-ama occurred_at: 2024-04-24 date_precision: day published_at: 2024-04-24 title: AMA with Patrick and John Collison venue: Stripe Sessions series: Sessions 2024 participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: speaker - name: John Collison role: speaker media: [video, transcript] duration_seconds: 2700 duration_precision: approximate transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-001e51b689b259d0b4e3 topics: [auctomatic, company-building, craft, culture, climate, ai, product-strategy] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2024] significance: Patrick and John revisit Auctomatic, explain Stripe's emphasis on craft and long-duration work, and discuss climate, AI, competitive learning, and product strategy in an official transcript. source_ids: [source-001e51b689b259d0b4e3] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2024-04-patrick-collison-berkeley-haas occurred_at: 2024-04 date_precision: month published_at: 2024-04-30 title: Patrick Collison on founding a company that should have already existed venue: UC Berkeley Haas series: Dean's Speaker Series participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee media: [video, transcript] duration_seconds: 3600 duration_precision: approximate transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-ca9f69ba263dbc27bda3 topics: [founding, startup-school, early-company, culture, writing] historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2011, stripe-2012-2024] significance: Patrick gives a detailed first-person account of the 2009 Startup School walk, John proposing the prototype, the first US trip, early company hardship, and Stripe's writing culture. source_ids: [source-ca9f69ba263dbc27bda3] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2024-02-patrick-collison-dwarkesh occurred_at: 2024-02-21 date_precision: day published_at: 2024-02-21 title: Patrick Collison on craft, APIs, and Stripe's future venue: Dwarkesh Podcast participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee media: [podcast, video, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-51a0e1edbe8fc1ce9d5a topics: [company-building, payment-volume, progress-studies, arc-institute, stripe-climate, api-design, culture] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2024] significance: Patrick gives a long first-person account of Stripe's history, processing scale, API design, company culture, Stripe Climate, Arc Institute, and how he and John divide their work. source_ids: [source-51a0e1edbe8fc1ce9d5a] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2023-11-patrick-john-collison-social-radars occurred_at: 2023-11-14 date_precision: day published_at: 2023-11-14 title: Patrick and John Collison on building Stripe venue: The Social Radars participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee - name: John Collison role: interviewee media: [podcast] duration_seconds: 4294 duration_precision: exact transcript: availability: none topics: [founding, y-combinator, company-building, product-strategy, culture] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2023] significance: The brothers jointly recount Stripe's path from a two-person project through its later scale, adding a shared first-person perspective on the company's founding and development. source_ids: [source-d8e4c6cb20568d496b94] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2023-10-patrick-john-collison-colossus occurred_at: 2023-10-17 date_precision: day published_at: 2023-10-17 title: A Business State of Mind venue: Invest Like the Best participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee - name: John Collison role: interviewee media: [podcast, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-1278271efc6181fee94f topics: [company-building, culture, strategy, capital-allocation, internet-economy] historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2023] significance: Patrick and John discuss Stripe's strategy, culture, attention to detail, capital allocation, and the internet economy together in a long-form primary interview. source_ids: [source-1278271efc6181fee94f] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2020-06-john-collison-colossus occurred_at: 2020-06-16 date_precision: day published_at: 2020-06-16 title: Growing the Internet Economy venue: Invest Like the Best participants: - name: John Collison role: interviewee media: [podcast, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-4d80199395399e9e47d8 topics: [internet-economy, writing, conglomerates, company-building, governance] historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2020] significance: John discusses Stripe's mission, the internet economy, writing, industrial conglomerates, and company governance in a long-form interview with a complete publisher transcript. source_ids: [source-4d80199395399e9e47d8] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2018-12-patrick-collison-tim-ferriss occurred_at: 2018-12-24 date_precision: day published_at: 2018-12-24 title: Patrick Collison on books, Auctomatic, Stripe, and technological progress venue: The Tim Ferriss Show series: Episode 353 participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee media: [podcast, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-7365200928b2c76a48b7 topics: [auctomatic, founding, books, learning, progress-studies, company-building] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2018] significance: Patrick gives an unusually detailed account of his early programming, Auctomatic, Stripe's origin, reading practice, recruiting, and interest in technological progress. source_ids: [source-7365200928b2c76a48b7] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2016-05-patrick-john-collison-cbs occurred_at: 2016-05-01 date_precision: day published_at: 2016-05-01 title: Fintech and the origin of Stripe venue: CBS 60 Minutes participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee - name: John Collison role: interviewee media: [video, transcript] transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-26410b426525f71187bb topics: [founding, early-company, payments, product-demo, financial-industry] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2016] significance: The brothers explain the payment friction that led them to Stripe and demonstrate the early product in a contemporaneous national television profile with an official script. source_ids: [source-26410b426525f71187bb] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2015-02-john-collison-stanford occurred_at: 2015-02-17 date_precision: day published_at: 2015-02-17 title: Putting Startup Success in Perspective venue: Stanford Technology Ventures Program series: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders participants: - name: John Collison role: interviewee media: [video, transcript] duration_seconds: 3456 duration_precision: exact transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-a5d1d621862fa7f1cac0 topics: [founding, startup-failure, company-building, culture, entrepreneurship] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2015] significance: John explains how celebrated startups repeatedly pass through uncertainty and failure, placing Stripe's early path in the context of startup evolution and durable company vision. source_ids: [source-a5d1d621862fa7f1cac0] review_status: reviewed - id: appearance-2012-04-patrick-collison-startup-grind occurred_at: '2012' date_precision: year published_at: 2013-02-20 title: Stripe, six months in venue: Startup Grind participants: - name: Patrick Collison role: interviewee media: [video, transcript] duration_seconds: 3300 duration_precision: approximate transcript: availability: official language: en source_id: source-bda69e86e22cf8e2c66f topics: [auctomatic, buenos-aires, founding, first-users, early-hires, fundraising] historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2012] significance: This early interview preserves Patrick's account of Auctomatic, Buenos Aires, the first Stripe prototype and users, the September 2011 launch, early hires, and fundraising while the company was still young. source_ids: [source-bda69e86e22cf8e2c66f] review_status: reviewed