What Patrick Collison thinks about Google

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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1. 31 Jul 2026

   Our readingThe fear that a big lab will simply build your product is overstated, because no organisation can aggressively prosecute a hundred priorities at once.

   Their wordsAnd just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.

   ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording