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Patrick Collison speaking, in a blue T-shirt with a clip-on microphone, in 2015.
Photo: JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0

Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO, Stripe.

Founded Stripe in 2010.

EditorialAn editorial profile written by Ceolumen from public sources. Patrick Collison is not a Ceolumen member and has not endorsed Ceolumen. Disclosures

Profile

Patrick Collison is a co-founder and the chief executive of Stripe, which he founded with his younger brother, John, in 2010. Stripe makes payment-processing software and programming interfaces for online businesses, and is based in South San Francisco and Dublin.

Collison was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1988 and grew up in County Tipperary. In January 2005, at 16, he won Ireland’s Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with Croma, a programming language in the Lisp family that he wrote. He went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he left in 2009.

Outside Stripe, he co-founded the Arc Institute, a nonprofit research organisation, with the scientists Silvana Konermann and Patrick Hsu in 2021.

Sources

  1. Patrick Collison Wikipedia
  2. Stripe, Inc. Wikipedia
  3. Information for the press Stripe Newsroom

Facts and role checked against these sources on 12 November 2026. Roles change; if something here is out of date, write to support@stacklumen.com.

Photo

Patrick Collison speaking, in a blue T-shirt with a clip-on microphone, in 2015. Photograph by JD Lasica, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped from the original by Ceolumen.

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