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Allie Garfinkle

John Collison on Stripe Billing’s rise, books, and 'the tyranny of being first'

John Collison (Credit: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

John Collison and I spent far too long looking at books. 

Charles Dickens, Tom Wolfe, and Charlie Munger line the shelves in "The Library," a nook in Stripe’s San Francisco offices. Collison shares my love for Wolfe (he agrees that his best work transcends The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test). We pick up books, thumb through them, talking like two obsessive readers who are making just a bit of a book stack-mess. 

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