Patrick Collison ✓
@patrickc · patrick@stripe.com · joined 17 Apr 2007
@Stripe CEO, @ArcInstitute cofounder.
1 770 905Followers
29Following
10 380Posts total
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🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform.
Learn more:
• https://t.co/kGsKMULe3m
• https://t.co/Fn5U2QRaaz
• Email jweinstein@ / @jeff_weinstein
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Very good piece, as usual, from @jburnmurdoch: https://t.co/gLBHIKEZtx
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Tempo is compounding very quickly. Seeing a lot of new stablecoin + agent use-cases.
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$2B in 30D transfer volume on Tempo and we're just getting started https://t.co/PIa759mfVZ
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Given how wary academia (understandably) is of the effects of AI on many disciplines, it is particularly ironic that consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with
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A quick EU founder survey: https://t.co/LjizHbxgIQ.
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I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: patrick@stripe.com.
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Stimulating piece on Scottish education in @asteriskmgzn: https://t.co/S4VNJVmy6r.
I suspect that discussions of canon, culture, and shared context to return to the fore in the coming years, as many skills, narrowly-construed, are ceded to AI, and as some of the excesses of
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Architects oppose the kinds of buildings that most people like.
(I’ve wondered if one could further corroborate this by using Flickr/Instagram or similar to investigate the building traits that correlate with photo frequency.)
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Chris Arnade's blog continues to be one of the very best: https://t.co/tUMFIUq8R7. (You can also follow him: @chris_arnade.)
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Does the public prefer traditional architecture? Half a century of surveys find:
https://t.co/e3CSpfAmLQ
- Between 60 and 95 percent prefer traditional architecture;
- This pattern holds across gender, class, race, nationality and political views;
- More traditional https://t.c
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I've been enjoying Muse: https://t.co/ynb57nMDw4. Among many other things, you can use it to buy anywhere on the internet with @link.
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New improvements coming to the @link agent wallet every week.
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Ed West on the decline of reading: https://t.co/OjRKQnor29.
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Great essay from @clarabcollier: https://t.co/H1LpUNid9O.
(You should subscribe to @asteriskmgzn, in addition to @WorksInProgMag of course. They have a very good print edition.)
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Excellent and important piece on clinical trials from @RuxandraTeslo: https://t.co/8QNb5QRvXZ
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@patrickc Stablecoin transfer volume is cool Patrick, but how do you monetize simple token transfers?
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Tempo is growing very quickly and there are a lot of new use-cases coming online. Reach out to the team if you’re building with stablecoins.
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Tempo recently crossed $1 billion in 30-day stablecoin transfer volume. https://t.co/HNbY8iuUMg
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Shopify is now available in https://t.co/1tLZLlixEJ.
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@patrickc If it’s such a big deal, why are the big AI companies not treating it as such?
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@patrickc Outside the 10k people who follow this on X, literally no one cares
I just left a friends party with about 100 people there, I’d be willing to bet less than 5 would’ve known what that is
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@patrickc Meanwhile NYT https://t.co/0tZWr0hFAV
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Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.
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@patrickc @link @privy Stripe building the economic OS for agents is exactly right. Zebec sits on the same Privy/wallet layer: stream a treasury budget to an agent, attach a virtual card with spend rules, and let it pay for compute, SaaS, and APIs like a teammate. Wallets + strea
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@patrickc @link @privy I’ve honestly never been happier or more excited working at a company than at Stripe.
Totally agree.
Also @lil_dill has built a legendary design team.
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Against accounts of the same size
44 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views132 334this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %7.47%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.71%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 132 334 | 14 648 | 9.03× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 7.47% | 0.74% | 10.1× |
| Engagement rate | 0.71% | 0.70% | 1.02× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
136.5K7 Sep
288.1K8 Sep
921K11 Sep
394.3K
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61K12 Sep
190.6K15 Sep
248.7K16 Sep
194.7K
73.8K17 Sep
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97.7K19 Sep
203.6K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.21%7 Sep
0.47%8 Sep
0.28%11 Sep
0.32%
0.71%
0.71%12 Sep
0.37%15 Sep
0.24%16 Sep
0.59%
1.35%17 Sep
0.08%
0.43%
0.72%19 Sep
0.86%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes66.3%28 894 in total
Reposts5.1%2 228 in total
Replies3.7%1 609 in total
Quotes1.4%598 in total
Bookmarks23.5%10 230 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
23 Sep
Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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