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John Collison

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Irish billionaire entrepreneur. Co-founder and President of Stripe, one of the wealthiest people from Ireland.

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John Collison @JohnCollison · Oct 3, 2023
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Poor Charlie's Almanack (the newest edition!) is available for pre-order now through @stripepress for $30. It would be a false economy to scroll past this without buying it.

Book Jan 1, 2005
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Charlie Munger
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John Collison @JohnCollison · Jun 13, 2022
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Good thread highlighting how Dublin could be much more beautiful in the small details. For design cues we can look to other European cities, many of which do a lovely job of these small touches.

Tweet Nov 28, 2021
A #thread on how utterly useless @DubCityCouncil is at managing our city, in particular the public realm. No other major European city seems to get so much wrong, so often. I'm honestly not sure what Dubliners have done to deserve Councillors & a Cou
by Daragh Cassidy
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John Collison @JohnCollison · Apr 21, 2022
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Really enjoyed @fotoole's "We Don't Know Ourselves" -- a personal history of modern Ireland

Article Sep 20, 2021
We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole review – sweeping account of Ireland’s evolutions
by Fintan O'Toole
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There’s a good book on Oracle called Softwar by, I can’t remember the author, but the name of the book is Softwar, software with the ‘e’ chopped off. And it actually has this really interesting format that I’ve never seen the book, which is the guy got lots of access to Larry Ellison while writing it. But the condition for getting that access was that Larry Ellison got a right of reply within the book.

Book Sep 23, 2003
Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
by Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison
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