1. Patrick Collison was born on 9 September 1988 and is an Irish entrepreneur.
17 Facts About Patrick Collison
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Patrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010.
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Patrick Collison won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen.
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Patrick Collison was born to microbiologist Lily and electronic engineer Denis Collison on 9 September 1988, and he and his brothers were brought up in the small village of Dromineer in County Tipperary.
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Patrick Collison was educated in Gaelscoil Aonach Urmhumhan, Nenagh, before attending Castletroy College in Castletroy, County Limerick.
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Patrick Collison re-entered the following year, and won first place at the age of sixteen on 14 January 2005.
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Patrick Collison's project involved the creation of Croma, a LISP-type programming language.
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Patrick Collison attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but eventually dropped out in 2009 after starting businesses.
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In 2010, Patrick Collison co-founded Stripe, which in 2011 received investment of $2 million including from PayPal co-founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel.
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In November 2016, the Patrick Collison brothers became the world's youngest self-made billionaires, worth at least $1.1 billion, after an investment in Stripe from CapitalG and General Catalyst Partners valued the company at $9.2 billion.
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In 2018, Stripe, under the direction of the Patrick Collison brothers, contributed $1 million to California YIMBY, a pro-housing development lobbying organisation.
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On 18 July 2009, at the age of 20 and following the publication of the McCarthy Report, Patrick Collison outlined his ideas for the future of Ireland on popular talk-show Saturday Night with Miriam.
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Patrick Collison publishes the list of books he read on his website.
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In November 2018, Patrick Collison published a piece in The Atlantic with Michael Nielsen entitled Science is Getting Less Bang for its Buck, arguing that increased investment in science has not produced commensurate output.
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In 2019, Patrick Collison published an opinion piece in the same outlet with Tyler Cowen arguing for a new academic discipline called "Progress Studies", which would study the cultural and institutional conditions which lead to the most progress and higher standards of living.
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Patrick Collison O'Donovan called on the magazine and author to apologise to the people of Limerick "for the insult and hurt caused" by it.
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Patrick Collison met Konermann during the 2004 EU Young Scientist competition.