John Collison: preference

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…Totally. Yeah. I think this is the thing that, I mean, we’re at a very different scale than Stripe, but the thing that I have been talking about lately with my team is the company changes under our feet. It’s like one day you wake up and you’re like, “Oh, it’s like the rules are different actually.” People are caring about different things than they did before, and the voice that we have in the ecosystem is different in these types of things. And I do actually think that Stripe is pretty clearly a leader on a lot of these axes, but I haven’t heard as much of the voice in terms of what is the vision in which we want to build. I see a future in which there is a vision of the world that I want to exist and Stripe is uniquely in a position to be able to make that vision true, and I want to sign up for that. Yeah, I think maybe also, you’ve probably picked up on this dispositionally, we’re just not naturally drawn to pre-announcing products before they’re anywhere close to—we like to do a thing and hopefully we get it right. Totally.…

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