Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

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  Okay, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe.

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  Patrick, first question.

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  You have an excellent compilation of advice on your blog for people 10 to 20,

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  and you say there that once you turn 35, you'll write some for people in their 20s.

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  What advice do you have for us now, the people in our 20s now?

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  Wait, when's it coming?

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  I haven't really thought about that.

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  The one I've been wondering at recently is,

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  I said for that advice for people in their teens, they should go to San Francisco.

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  And I wonder for people in their 20s if they shouldn't go to San Francisco.

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  And I mean, glib, and I think there's a significant set of people who should,

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  in fact, go to San Francisco.

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  But the thing that I wonder about is there is a set of career paths that I think some set of people ought to pursue and would derive most fulfillment from pursuing and that are really valuable for the world,

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  if pursued,

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  that require accumulating a lot of expertise and really studying a domain in tremendous depth.

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  And I think San Francisco Valorizes and look this is this is also San Francisco's great virtue San Francisco valorizes a kind of striking out on your own iconotlastically dismissing the sort of received wisdom and and You know the founding archetypes of and lore of the Steve Jobs and the Bill Gates and all the rest and you know I'm way less successful than those people but like to some extent you know Stripe and as much

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  as it fits a pattern is an instance of that pattern And look,

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  that's great.

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  And I'm kind of happy that that phenomenon exists in the world.

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  But I don't think that just the world needs lots of other things, right?

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