Patrick Collison
CEO, Stripe
Biography
Patrick Collison is an Irish Billionaire entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Stripe, which he co-founded with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. In 2020, he founded Fast Grants to fund COVID-19-related science with economist Tyler Cowen. In 2021, Collison co-founded Arc Institute, a nonprofit research organization, with bioscientists Silvana Konermann and Patrick Hsu. His net worth is estimated at $17.5 Billion according to Forbes as of June 2026.
Career Timeline
Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish Billionaire entrepreneur.
He re-entered the following year, and won first place at the age of sixteen on 14 January 2005.
On Good Friday of March 2008, Collison, aged nineteen, and his brother, aged seventeen, sold Auctomatic to Canadian company Live Current Media, becoming millionaires.
He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but eventually dropped out in 2009 after starting businesses.
His younger brother Tommy participated with his project on blogging in the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2010.
In 2018, Stripe, under the direction of the Collison brothers, contributed $1 million to California YIMBY, a pro-housing development lobbying organisation.
In September 2019, it was announced that Stripe had raised an additional $250 million at a valuation of $35 billion.
The article was removed from the website on 9 April 2021.