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# Overheard : On vision
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/overheard-on-vision/
- Published: 2022-07-24T02:46:35.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-24T02:46:35.000Z
- Description: Patrick Collison (Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe) shared this snippet of an internal email that David Stearns (Staff Engineer at Stripe) wrote about Dee Hock. Dee...
- Author: admin
- Tags: OverHeard, Management, vision, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

[Patrick Collison](https://twitter.com/patrickc?ref=kudithipudi.org) (Co-Founder and CEO of [Stripe](https://stripe.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)) shared this snippet of an internal email that [David Stearns](https://twitter.com/davestearns?ref=kudithipudi.org) (Staff Engineer at [Stripe](https://stripe.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)) wrote about [Dee Hock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee%5FHock?ref=kudithipudi.org). Dee Hock was the founder of [Visa](https://visa.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) and this statement on Dee’s vision really connected with me

Today, I can hop on a plane to most anywhere in the world and use my Visa card to purchase goods and services regardless of the language spoken by the merchant, the currency of the merchant’s bank account, or the time zone difference between the merchant’s shop and my issuing bank. In the 1960’s this was unthinkable. **Today’s magic was yesterday’s dream**, and Hock was one of the biggest dreamers of all.

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