What Patrick Collison thinks about infrastructure

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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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31 Jul 2026

Our readingSome domains cannot be launched into early: where security, partners and money movement are preconditions, you have to build first.

Their wordsUm in our domain, to answer your last question, because we had to do so much stuff around security and partners and money movement and infrastructure and reliability and you know, all the things. We just we didn't feel like we could scale a really good self-serve experience without getting a lot of the kind of the preconditions um and the infrastructure in place.

↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording