Patrick Collison
Irish co-founder and CEO of Stripe; co-founder of the Arc Institute.
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Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments, Interview: Patrick Collison
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- Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur and the CEO of Stripe, which he co-founded with his brother John in 2010.
- At 16 he won Ireland's Young Scientist exhibition with Croma, a Lisp-like language.
- He left MIT in 2009, after selling his first company, Auctomatic, in 2008.
- In 2021 he co-founded the Arc Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research organisation.
- With Tyler Cowen he proposed Progress Studies (2019) and started Fast Grants (2020).
Key facts
- Born
- 9 September 1988, Limerick, Ireland1
- Young Scientist
- Won Ireland's Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, 14 January 20051
- Auctomatic
- Sold to Live Current Media with his brother John, March 20081
- Stripe
- Co-founded with John Collison in 2010; CEO1
- Arc Institute
- Co-founded in 2021 with Silvana Konermann and Patrick Hsu1
- Fast Grants
- Launched with Tyler Cowen in April 2020 to fund COVID-19 science1
- Meta
- Joined the board of Meta Platforms in April 20251
- Rhine Group
- Co-founded the policy forum with Mario Draghi in 20261
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Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments (opens dwarkesh.com)3
Dwarkesh Patel's interview.
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Interview: Patrick Collison (opens noahpinion.blog)2
Noah Smith's interview for Noahpinion.
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