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Extending capital makes businesses grow faster persistently

Stripe extends capital to businesses not to profit from loans but because the businesses it extends capital to then grow faster on a persistent subsequent basis, illustrating how optimizing the under-explored 'meta system of business' yields large gains.

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Speaker

Patrick Collison

Evidence Quote

The reason we do that is not to generate profit from the loans, but because we find that the businesses, whom we extend the capital for, then just grow faster on a persistent subsequent basis.

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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