John Collison, co-founder and president of payments giant Stripe, thinks everyone’s getting needlessly worked up over remote work. At European conference Sifted Summit in London earlier this month, Collison explained how Stripe has been on the cutting edge of distributed work well before it was fashionable.
“Prior to COVID, we were more pro-remote than the consensus, and post-COVID, we are more pro-office than the consensus,” Collison said. That shift is not because of a change in viewpoints on Stripe’s part; it’s because the broader consensus has shifted so dramatically, or “bounced around” as he put it.
