What Patrick Collison thinks about Silicon Valley

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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 readingStartup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.

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   Their wordsYou know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.

   ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording