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Patrick Collison
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Payment software
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- San Francisco , California
- Organization
- Cofounder at Stripe
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Drop Out)
- Marital Status
- Married
Biography
Patrick Collison is the cofounder and CEO of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.
Private investors valued Stripe at $159 billion in February 2026.
Patrick and his brother John hatched the idea for Stripe while both were in college in Cambridge at MIT.
Patrick handles engineering and serves as the public face of the company.
An avid reader, Collison keeps hundreds of books on his shelves on topics including physics, feminism and literary criticism.
About
The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.
Patrick and John took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.