Patrick Collison Biography

Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur from County Limerick and cofounder and CEO of Stripe which he started with his brother John Collison in 2010. He was the winner of the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. In 2010 Patrick cofounded Stripe which received backing from Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Sequoia Capital. In 2015 Patrick was on the cover of Forbes magazine. After attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States for a time Collison dropped out. In 2007 he set up software company 'Shuppa' (a play on the Irish word 'siopa') in Limerick with his brother John Collison. Enterprise Ireland did not allocate funding to the company prompting a move to California after Silicon Valley's Y Combinator showed interest. Here they merged with two Oxford graduates Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar and the company became Auctomatic.

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