Dean's Speaker Series | Patrick Collison, Co-Founder & CEO, Stripe; Co-Founder, Arc Institute

Patrick Collison is an entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Stripe in 2010 with his brother, John. Through Patrick’s leadership, Stripe has reshaped the digital economy by simplifying online payments through removing intermediaries. Today, millions of businesses-from hyper growth startups to global enterprises like Ford and Amazon-use Stripe to accept payments, send payouts, and manage complex global businesses online. Patrick also co-founded the Arc Institute, a biomedical research institute that is pioneering a new model for research in partnership with Stanford, UCSF and UC Berkeley.
In a fireside chat format, Patrick will discuss his entrepreneurial journey and delve into Stripe's history, the evolution of its unique organizational culture, his leadership strategies for navigating challenges and fostering innovation within the changing landscape of the future of work, and groundbreaking approaches to technology.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture & Innovation.

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re: the inverted mental model of authoring for businesses and Patrick's question..JK Rowling is not exactly cancelled: her suite of IP still sell, and she's become a hero for gender critical feminists and social conservatives for what they'd describe as fighting back against the encroachment on women's rights from the trans movement. Trans proponents and allies, however, might describe her recent arc as a descent into madness with her constant fixation on trans people, and that she's fuelling the flames of cultural bigotry. That's basically how it shakes out: cancelled in progressive circles, lionized in conservative (and gender critical feminist circles), but lots of people (whether faintly aware of these issues or not) still consume content related to her suite of IP. That is my (attempting to be strictly factual) summation of the situation....