Publicly criticized the corporate DEI rollback wave in May 2025: "I am baffled by all the companies doing an about-face on their social initiatives right now. Did you not actually mean it in the first place? Either don't do it, or do it and stay doing it." Stripe maintained its diversity commitments while peers like Meta, Amazon, and Google retreated.
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John Collison
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Co-founder and President of Stripe.
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In a May 2025 Irish Times interview, explicitly criticized the corporate DEI rollback wave: "I am baffled by all the companies doing an about-face on their social initiatives right now. Did you not actually mean it in the first place?" Framed both DEI and climate commitments as obligations companies should not abandon under political pressure.
Driving force behind Stripe's Frontier fund — a $1B+ advanced market commitment to carbon removal running 2022–2030 alongside Google, Meta, and McKinsey. Stripe signed contracts to remove $600M worth of carbon in 2024. Reaffirmed climate commitments in 2025 despite the Trump administration's rollback of climate priorities, stating "We need to suck carbon out of the atmosphere."