Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)

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Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.

Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.

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Recorded January 25th, 2017

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0:00.0	Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
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0:25.1	Hi everyone, this is Tyler.
0:27.0	And now, today's episode, it's going to be just a little different than usual.
0:31.2	A few months ago I asked Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, to be on the show.
0:37.0	I wanted Patrick on the show for a few reasons.
0:39.6	One is just that stripe and its atlas project.
0:42.4	It's one of the most exciting growth companies out there right now.
0:46.0	I also told a reporter recently that I considered Patrick to be one of the five smartest people
0:51.3	I've ever known, and he's a lot of fun.
0:53.8	As you'll hear, Patrick actually is from Ireland.
0:57.0	Now Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that he be the one to interview me.
1:02.9	So back in January, I traveled to Stripe headquarters in San Francisco to be interviewed by Patrick.
1:10.1	I'm happy to say Patrick stayed true to the spirit of a conversation with Tyler, so
1:14.9	he covered a wide range of topics, including macroeconomics, Silicon Valley, how some people
1:21.2	can read so fast, the Trump administration, and why the blog, Marginal Revolution, is
1:26.7	so ugly.
1:28.3	We have more great conversations coming with guests like Raj Chetty, Jill Lapur, and Gary
1:34.1	Kasparov, so please make sure to subscribe to the podcast if you haven't done so already.
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