John Collison ✓

@collision · California / Ireland · joined 23 Apr 2007

Co-founder of @stripe.

242 256Followers

1 433Following

9 537Posts total

476.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

John Collison ✓@collision28 Aug

Instinct can make purchases on your behalf (with supervision!) with Stripe Link! 32.9K views · 167 likes · 10 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

John Collison ✓@collision19 Aug

We’re delighted to welcome @OpenRouter to Stripe to help developers and businesses optimise their AI usage. As intelligence becomes a large fraction of companies' budgets, allocating that intelligence budget wisely becomes increasingly important. https://t.co/FswNe01XRX 46.8K views · 866 likes · 32 reposts · 58 replies Open on X →

John Collison ✓@collision18 Aug

AI has radically changed billing, with products now demanding high-volume usage-based billing. For the third consecutive year, Stripe Billing (inclusive of Metronome) is a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing. Stripe Billing is used by @AnthropicAI, 16.1K views · 125 likes · 7 reposts · 28 replies Open on X →

John Collison ✓@collision16 Jul

There are plenty of airshow accidents (with crowd fatalities) to study and the Blue Angels have a 10% career fatality rate. You can both celebrate military aviation and require following rules that are written in blood. 156.3K views · 587 likes · 14 reposts · 61 replies Open on X →

John Collison ✓@collision9 Jul

It’s really good — feels like the moment where the voice modality for AI apps will finally take off. Upgrade to the latest version of the ChatGPT App to get it. (Also great launch video.) 224.4K views · 460 likes · 18 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views32 856this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %13.56%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.01%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	32 856	5 983	5.49×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.56%	1.49%	9.10×
Engagement rate	1.01%	0.93%	1.08×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

224.4K9 Jul

156.3K16 Jul

16.1K18 Aug

46.8K19 Aug

32.9K28 Aug

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.23%9 Jul

0.43%16 Jul

1.01%18 Aug

2.06%19 Aug

0.60%28 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes79.5%2 205 in total

Reposts2.9%81 in total

Replies7.2%199 in total

Quotes0.6%17 in total

Bookmarks9.8%273 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.