Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.

There's a perception out there that Airbnb doesn't want there to be rules. We think rules would be fantastic. We think rules would help our community, but not necessarily the rules that have simply existed for decades.

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.

We've issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody's ever seen regulations like we have.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.

I don't interfere with regulators.

I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.

What Techstars is fundamentally a global ecosystem in which entrepreneurs are enabled and empowered to bring new technologies to the market.

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.

My view is that the Internet should be run by engineers and entrepreneurs, not lawyers and bureaucrats.