Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?

The gist

1. Collison compares knowledge to a computer cache: knowing something in your head is far faster than asking an AI, so learning still matters.
2. He dropped out of MIT twice, and says finishing college is fine if you enjoy it, while the cost of leaving is minimal.
3. Stripe took about two years to launch publicly, in September 2011, but had its first live customer in January 2010 and added users monthly.
4. Collison suggests the lean startup playbook may matter less now, since AI makes ambitious starts easier and small niches are harder to find.
5. Stripe data shows new businesses up nearly 2x year over year, the largest jump seen, which Collison says points to many winners, not centralization.