No. 161Ireland
Patrick Collison
Payment software · San Francisco, California
Net worth
$17.5B
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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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Principal holdings
1 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Private holdings | Technology | 100.0% | $17.5B |
Also known for
- The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.
- Patrick and John took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.