Patrick Collison — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at age sixteen for creating the Croma programming language.
Serves as CEO of Stripe, which he co-founded in 2010.
Co-founded Auctomatic in 2007, which was sold in 2008.
Co-founded Arc Institute, a nonprofit research organization, in 2021.
Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography

Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, a company he started with his younger brother, John Collison, in 2010. Stripe received early investment from notable figures such as PayPal co-founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, as well as venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel. By November 2016, the Collison brothers became the world's youngest self-made billionaires, with a net worth of at least $1.1 billion.