Patrick Collison
Cofounder, Stripe
$17.49B
as of 08/18/26
About Patrick Collison
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.
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Citizenship
IrelandSource of wealth
Payment softwareResidence
San Francisco , CaliforniaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
09/09/88 (age 37)Education
Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySelf-made
self-madePatrick Collison’s fortune is worth
292K
troy ounces of gold
269K
median U.S. household
175K
median U.S. income
0.35%
U.S. credit card volume
0.07%
GDP of the United States
0.051%
United States debt
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Did you know?
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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