Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’

‘In hindsight, I think that was a poor intuition,’ Patrick Collison said during a Y Combinator interview. ‘It’s been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades that Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.’

Patrick Collison dropped out of MIT twice before going on to become the cofounder and CEO of Stripe. In an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup School, Collison imparted some of his wisdom to the Gen Z founders in the crowd, advising them not to feel pressured to make the same choice he made.