Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’

“In hindsight, I think that was a poor intuition,” Patrick Collison said during a Y Combinator interview. “It’s been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades that Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.”

CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison [Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images]

Patrick Collison dropped out of MIT twice before going on to become the cofounder and CEO of Stripe. In an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup........

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