John Collison

Stripe distribution + payments-as-infra playbook

John Collison is President and co-founder of Stripe, the payments infrastructure company he built with his brother Patrick. Starting in 2010, he helped grow Stripe into one of the most valuable private technology companies by championing a developer-first API approach that abstracted away the complexity of online payments. He is particularly credited with early business development and distribution—personally signing up Stripe's first customers.