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# Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

We discuss: \* what it takes to process $1 trillion/year \* how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships \* what's next for Stripe (increasing the GDP of the internet is quite an open ended prompt, and the Collison brothers are just getting started). Plus the amazing stuff they're doing at Arc Institute, the financial infrastructure for AI agents, playing devil's advocate against progress studies, and much more. 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 \* Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/patrick-collison \* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/patrick-collison-stripe-ceo-craft-beauty-the-future/id1516093381?i=1000646268840 \* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CN45zb7saXUjlVuUtmbEZ?si=kHwGCph2Sg2M9w5HSglzGw \* Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh\_sp 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Advice for 20-30 year olds 00:12:58 - Progress studies 00:23:07 - Arc Institute 00:35:13 - AI & Fast Grants 00:44:32 - Stripe history 00:56:30 - Stripe Climate 01:02:25 - Beauty & APIs 01:12:37 - Financial innards 01:29:02 - Stripe culture & future 01:42:42 - Virtues of big businesses 01:52:27 - John

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