John Collison
San Francisco, California
Drop Out, Harvard University
Ireland
Stripe
payments software, Self Made
$2,100,000,000
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#1116 Billionaires 2019
#15 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016
John Collison is cofounder and president of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.In September 2018, Stripe announced a $245 million funding round that valued the business at $20.25 billion.He and his brother Patrick hatched the idea for Stripe while both were in college in Boston. 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.
John and Patrick Collison took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.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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