Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison is an Irish technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of **Stripe**, the financial-technology company that provides online payments and business infrastructure. - **Background:** Born in 1988 in County Tipperary, Ireland. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-founded Stripe with his brother, John Collison. - **Current role:** CEO of Stripe, which they founded in 2010 and grew into a major global payments platform serving internet businesses. - **Notable work:** Helped expand Stripe beyond payment processing into billing, fraud prevention, business incorporation, issuing, and other financial tools. He also co-founded **Fast Grants**, which accelerated funding for COVID-19 research in 2020.

Patrick Collison is an **Irish entrepreneur** and the **cofounder and CEO of Stripe**, the fintech company that provides online payment and financial infrastructure for businesses.[1][3][4] He grew up in Ireland, learned programming young, and briefly attended MIT before leaving to start companies with his brother John; before Stripe, the brothers built Auctomatic, a startup that was later sold.[3][10][11] Stripe was founded in **2010** by Patrick and John Collison, and Patrick has led it as CEO since then.[2][4][6][10] His notable work is building Stripe into a major payments platform used by companies to accept payments and manage online commerce.[3][7][9]

# Patrick Collison **Background:** Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur born in 1988. He studied mathematics and theoretical physics at MIT before dropping out to pursue business ventures. **Current Role:** He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, a financial services and payment processing company founded in 2010 with his brother John Collison. **Notable Work:** - Built Stripe into one of the most valuable fintech companies globally, valued at over $95 billion at its peak - Stripe provides payment infrastructure for online businesses and has become a major player in digital payments - Known for focusing on developer experience and making payment processing more accessible - Has been influential in shaping modern fintech infrastructure Collison is generally regarded as one of the most successful fintech entrepreneurs, though he maintains a relatively low public profile compared to some peers in the industry.

**Patrick Collison** is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur and businessman in the fintech industry. * **Background:** Born in 1988 in County Tipperary, Ireland, Collison showed an early aptitude for computer science, winning the 2005 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at age 16. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before dropping out to pursue entrepreneurial ventures. Prior to his current role, he co-founded an online auction management system, Auctomatic, which was acquired in 2008 when he was 19. * **Current Role:** He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of **Stripe**, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, allowing businesses to accept payments and manage their operations online. He founded Stripe in 2010 alongside his younger brother, John Collison. * **Notable Work:** Under his leadership, Stripe has grown to become one of the most valuable privately held fintech companies in the world, processing hundreds of billions of dollars annually for businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Beyond Stripe, Collison is known for his philanthropic and scientific interests, including co-founding Fast Grants (to accelerate scientific research) and supporting various progress studies initiatives.