![]() ![]() ![]() Instagram’s would-be Twitter killer is still in its infancy-but that hasn’t stopped extremely online users in tech, media and marketing from forming very strong opinions about it. Social studies Threading the Needle: Social Media Power Users Are Divided About Threads Kalley reports on the company’s supercreators, who organize in-person meetups to celebrate their Notion-fueled “second brains.” The San Francisco–based software company, designed for taking notes and managing files, has sparked an unlikely global fandom. Scene and heard The Cult of Notion: A Productivity App Becomes a Sensation for Creators Cory surveys Collison’s expanding empire, from a 1,120-acre Irish estate to his life in San Francisco with his unicorn CEO fiancée. ![]() Now, at 32, the Stripe co-founder is writing his legacy as a business leader. The younger Collison brother has been a billionaire since he was 28. The Big read John Collison’s Land Grab: Stripe’s Second-in-Command Stakes His Claim It’s time to get to know this Collison lad-whether he welcomes the attention or not. His purchase of a sprawling manor in Ireland, his adventurism in aviation and his insatiable appetite for new ideas (see his and Patrick’s “frontier camp,” coming this month to Sea Ranch, Calif.) all bespeak an emerging captain of industry who’s rapidly coming into his own. John, a student of moguls like Larry Ellison and John Malone, seems to be only getting started. The resulting $7 billion in fresh capital represented the largest fundraise in the history of private companies. John took the reins as the company’s chief financial officer earlier this year as Stripe raced to find new sources of cash amidst declining profits and a diminished valuation. Indeed, the younger brother of Stripe CEO Patrick Collison has only recently earned his fund-raising and managerial, um, stripes. “This is the first time he’s really diving in deep.” “He’s still so young,” one Stripe investor and Collison intimate told Cory for this weekend’s cover story. Unlike other millennial tech titans like Sam Altman, Brian Chesky and Brian Armstrong, relatively little has been written about Collison, the intensely private, Irish-born co-founder of the $50 billion payments company Stripe. You’re likely not intimately familiar with the world of John Collison, and that is mostly by design. ![]()
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