Growing up in County Tipperary, Ireland, Patrick Collison taught himself computer programming at an early age and won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005. He moved to Boston to attend MIT before dropping out to co-found Auctomatic, an auction management startup that was acquired within 10 months.
In 2010, frustrated by how difficult and bureaucratic it was to accept credit card payments on the internet, Patrick and his brother John set out to make payment processing as simple as writing seven lines of code.
Stripe revolutionized developer-first software with elegant API documentation and unmatched developer ergonomics. Today, Stripe handles over 1% of the world's GDP, serving platforms like Amazon, Shopify, Uber, and millions of digital startups, while funding cutting-edge scientific research and carbon removal technologies.
