John Collison
@collision
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Co-founder of @stripe.
California / Ireland
Joined April 2007
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Maths savant turned @cognition founder @ScottWu46 joins me to discuss their AI software engineer, acquiring Windsurf over a weekend, the Moneyball-ification of everything, math contests with @alexandr_wang in 6th grade, the future of independent coding tools, and why he thinks we
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Dropping tomorrow: a Cheeky Pint with @ScottWu46. (We also talked about Cognition and Windsurf and didn't just do math puzzles the whole time.) Subscribe for this and future episodes.
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In one of my favourite Cheeky Pint episodes to date, @brian_armstrong brings us behind the scenes at @coinbase: their battles against North Korean hackers, war stories from breakneck early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary
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Upcoming at the Cheeky Pint bar: @brian_armstrong from Coinbase, @ScottWu46 from Cognition, and a bevy of other excellent guests. To ensure you get only freshly-tapped episodes, mosey over to Spotify or Apple Podcasts to subscribe.
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Two-thirds of the Forbes AI 50—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, xAI, Perplexity, and Suno—are using @link to offer seamless no-typing checkouts and create faster revenue growth.
Pay with Link. ⏱️ Check out in seconds.💵 Use cards, banks, and buy now, pay later.🔒 Your information is protected with end-to-end encryption
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Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.
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Millions of Ameircans depend on the security of their retirement savings to live with dignity after a lifetime of hard work. That’s why the Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement (APSR)...
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RT @pitdesi: Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the….
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I had up till now—surprisingly—never read "Fate is the Hunter" by Ernest Gann, one of the canon on the early swashbuckling days of aviation (up there with Langewiesche and St. Exupery). It's riveting, and several of the stories would make any pilot's blood run cold.
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RT @patrickc: Chase is implementing grabby fees to prevent customers from sharing their own account data with other apps. We (and 80 other….
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Some nice tidbits of Guinness history from @willobri
thefitzwilliam.com
Ireland’s most famous brewery has been ahead of the curve for 250 years
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Wow, Google shipped a super speedy improvement to duplicating events in Google Calendar. Thank you @sundarpichai! ☺️.
@collision This feature is now live for everyone on Google Calendar on the web - thanks for the suggestion!.
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In our latest Cheeky Pint, @vladtenev of Robinhood and I discussed hoarding Bulgarian copper pots, his pitch to tokenise private stocks, how Michael Lewis got Flash Boys wrong, Vlad’s admiration for Frank Slootman, and what he’d do as SEC Chairman. I also discovered that Vlad can
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What it feels like to select o3 in the Legacy Models menu.
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RT @om: I really enjoyed this conversation. Great chat between @collision & @DarioAmodei -- Of all his interviews, this conversation clearl….
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