Patrick Collison

Cofounder, Stripe
$7.15B
as of 07/02/24

About Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison is the cofounder and CEO of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.

In April 2020, Stripe raised an $850 million funding round with a valuation of $36 billion.

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Ireland

Source of wealth

Payment software

Residence

San Francisco , California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

09/09/88 (age 35)

Education

Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Self-made

self-made

Patrick Collison’s fortune is worth

119K

troy ounces of gold

110K

median U.S. household

72K

median U.S. income

0.143%

U.S. credit card volume

0.029%

GDP of the United States

0.021%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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