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Stripe aims to grow the GDP of the internet at the margin

Stripe's goal of 'growing the GDP of the internet' is not merely migrating existing economic activity onto its rails but causing new economic activity that wouldn't otherwise occur — making it possible for people who weren't monetizing, or businesses in underserved markets like Albania, to transact, where the counterfactual impact is far larger than in well-served markets like the US.

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Speaker

Patrick Collison

Evidence Quote

When we talk about growing the GDP of the internet, it's not like: 'Get the existing GDP onto our rails', — it's sort of: 'Where on the margin can we cause there to be economic activity that isn't already occurring?'

Source

Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leaveDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:26:23 AM

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