John Collison
Cofounder, Stripe
$10.06B
as of 01/18/26
About John Collison
John Collison is cofounder and president of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.
Private investors valued Stripe at $91.5 billion in February 2025.
John and his brother Patrick hatched the idea for Stripe while both were in college in Cambridge at MIT.
The company's first payment was processed while both were on vacation in South America.
John was born and raised in the countryside near Limerick, Ireland, where his parents ran a lakeside hotel.
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IrelandSource of wealth
Payment softwareResidence
San Francisco , CaliforniaMarital status
SingleBirth date
08/06/90 (age 35)Education
Drop Out, Harvard UniversitySelf-made
self-madeJohn Collison’s fortune is worth
168K
troy ounces of gold
155K
median U.S. household
101K
median U.S. income
0.201%
U.S. credit card volume
0.04%
GDP of the United States
0.03%
United States debt
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The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.
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