Patrick Collison

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Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur and computer programmer who is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, a leading online payments company. Collison is known for co-founding Stripe in 2010 with his brother John Collison. Stripe has become one of the most valuable private companies in the world, providing payment processing software and services to businesses of all sizes. Under Collison's leadership, Stripe has expanded globally and integrated with a wide range of platforms and services. Collison was born in 1988 in Limerick, Ireland. He attended the University of Limerick for a year before dropping out to co-found Auctomatic, an e-commerce company, with his brother John in 2007. Auctomatic was later sold to Live Current Media for $5 million. Collison then went on to co-found Stripe in 2010, which has grown to become a dominant force in the online payments industry.