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Startups Media/Telecom

A Conversation with the Medium Baron

By Jessica E. Lessin · Oct. 31, 2020 8:01 AM PDT · 2 comments

One of the wonderful things about being a tech reporter for going on two decades is the chance to observe executives in multiple acts. And this week, while the internet was debating Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s scraggly pandemic beard, I was chatting with one of Dorsey’s predecessors in that role, Twitter co-founder and now Medium CEO... One of the wonderful things about being a tech reporter for going on two decades is the chance to...

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The Saturday Interview

Venture Capital Enterprise

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Never Flashy, Is Fired Up

By Jessica E. Lessin · Aug. 29, 2020 8:01 AM PDT · 3 comments

It’s a quirk of Silicon Valley that one of the most seemingly uninteresting businesses is run by one of the most interesting people. Ten years into running Stripe, its co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison, still has a voracious appetite for just about everything related to the future of technology—including his payment... It’s a quirk of Silicon Valley that one of the most seemingly uninteresting businesses is...