Having never met John Collison it is hard to know what to make of the decision by the technology billionaire to enter the national debate on our inability to get things done.
Is he yet another very successful business man who care about his country and its problems even if he is little naive about the price that democracies pay in terms of implementing reform and delivering long-term projects? Or has Collison spent a little too long in Silicon Valley drinking the Kool-Aid? Does he now want to import some of the less attractive elements of its creed into Ireland?
The first possibility is the simplest and thus the most likely explanation but the second also tracks – up to a point.
Collison and his brother Patrick founded Stripe – a payments platform aimed at small business – in Palo Alto in 2
Continue Reading on The Irish Times
This preview shows approximately 15% of the article. Read the full story on the publisher's website to support quality journalism.