Where does Patrick Collison work?

Patrick Collison is Co-founder & CEO of Stripe and Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation and Founder at Auctomatic.

What companies did Patrick Collison found?

Patrick Collison founded Stripe, Auctomatic.

What boards does Patrick Collison sit on?

Patrick Collison holds tracked board seats at Meta Platforms.

What companies has Patrick Collison invested in?

Investments tracked here include California Forever, Esmeralda.

Where did Patrick Collison go to school?

Patrick Collison studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mathematics (incomplete)).

What podcasts and interviews feature Patrick Collison?

Tracked appearances include "Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions", "On Innovation, Human Agency, and Government Spending", "A conversation with Jony Ive", and 4 more.

Patrick Collison

InvestorUnicorn founder

Co-founder & CEO at Stripe · Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation · Founder at Auctomatic

San Francisco, CA

FoundedStripe$159B · YC Auctomatic · YC

30 Under 30 2022 · Hall of Fame 30 Under 30 2014 · Enterprise Technology 30 Under 30 2013 · Enterprise Technology

Find your path to Patrick

582 people in our graph share verified history with Patrick — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

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Patrick: together at Auctomatic

About

Patrick Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010 and has run it since — a company valued at $159 billion in its February 2026 tender offer, processing $1.9 trillion of payment volume in 2025 and robustly profitable. A Limerick teenager who won Ireland's Young Scientist competition at 16 for a LISP-like programming language, he dropped out of MIT, sold his first company Auctomatic at 19, and became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 28. Beyond Stripe he co-founded the Arc Institute and Fast Grants, publishes through Stripe Press, and joined Meta's board in 2025.

Contact· published on Patrick's own website

p•••@collison.iereveal

Beyond investing

Founded: Cofounded Stripe, which builds programmable financial infrastructure. Cofounded the Arc Institute, which trains biology AI models and works on complex human diseases.
Education: Studied at MIT.
Communities: Grew up in Ireland. Helped start Progress Studies with Tyler Cowen. Started the New Aesthetics grant program with Tyler Cowen.
Hobbies: Maintains a public bookshelf cataloging the physical books he owns and posts book recommendations on Twitter. Compiled a personal Silicon Valley canon of favorite books and articles on the history of computing and Silicon Valley.
More: Interested in urbanism and why pleasant new cities are no longer built.

Mentioned above: the Stripe mafia →

From Patrick's own website — common ground for a warm intro.

Co-founder & CEO at Stripe YC S09

Intro paths

Patrick went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Patrick can intro founders to Stripe's investors below.

Stripe's investors · 67

500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2014 Advaita CapitalBoston Aglae VenturesParis · $108K – $5.4M checks Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checks Alkeon InnovationNew York Altos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checks AlvenParis Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026 AtomicoLondon Base PartnersSão Paulo BoxGroupNew York · $1M checks CapitalGSan Francisco · $50M – $100M checks Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks Designer FundSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks Dria VenturesNew York Emerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checks Entrée CapitalTel Aviv · $150K – $15M checks Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Firestreak Ventures FirstMark CapitalNew York · $500K – $8M checks · since 2024 Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks Fourth RealmMenlo Park Galdana VenturesBarcelona General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks Glade Brook Capital PartnersGreenwich Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park Golden Gate VenturesSingapore · $473K – $60M checks Goose Valley VenturesStockholm · $870K checks Green Meadow VenturesWest Hollywood · $500K – $3M checks GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks HeavybitSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks ICONIQSan Francisco Imaginary Venture CapitalNew York · $1M – $10M checks Interplay Ventures Early Stage Management LlcNew York · $1M checks InvestXVancouver JuniperoMiami Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks Lowercase CapitalJackson Moment Ventures, LlcPalo Alto New Wavesince 2024 Night CapitalCapitola Notable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checks ParadigmSan Francisco · $1M – $100M checks Preston-Werner VenturesSan Francisco Bay Area · $500K – $3M checks Prime VenturesAmsterdam · $5.4M – $16.2M checks Quest VenturesSingapore · $50K – $10M checks Redpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checks SciFi VCSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks Seiho Investment WorksKyoto · $67K – $670K checks Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2024 Sherpalo VenturesMenlo Park SignalFireSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2024 Sixth StreetSan Francisco · $50M – $2.5B checks South Quad Square Peg CapitalMelbourne SquareOneBerlin · $378K – $3.8M checks SquareOne CapitalMiami Standard CapitalSan Francisco SV AngelSan Francisco The Players' Impact Thrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2026 Union Square Ventures (USV)New York City · $1M – $8M checks WAGMI Ventures WealthUnion$10K checks XYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Stripe

John CollisonCo-founder & President

Founder at Auctomatic YC W07

Intro paths

Patrick went through Y Combinator (Winter 2007) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Patrick can intro founders to Auctomatic's investors below.

Auctomatic's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2007

Co-founders at Auctomatic

Harj TaggarFounder

Kulveer TaggarFounder

Experience

Arc InstituteCofoundercurrent2021 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
StripeCEOcurrent2010 — present
AuctomaticCofounder2007 — 2008

Skills & more

Programming Languages6Software Engineering15Artificial Intelligence4Distributed Systems4APIs9Flying1

Languages French · German · Irish

From Patrick's professional profile.

Investments

Board seats

Meta Platforms

Investor

California ForeverEsmeralda

Sources: curated public sources · the investor's own website.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions

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On Innovation, Human Agency, and Government Spending

Cato Free Society · cato.org

A conversation with Jony Ive

Stripe

A conversation with NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang

Stripe

Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments

Dwarkesh Podcast · dwarkesh.com

Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

Dwarkesh Patel

1 more appearances

Reid Hoffman & Patrick Collison Fireside Chat2019-07-16

Colleagues at Stellar Development Foundation

Asiff Hirji

Board of Directors at Stellar Development Foundation

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation

Candace Kelly

Investor at Stellar Development Foundation

Cody Phillips

Venture Partner at Innovating Capital

Dan Kaminsky

Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation

David Mazières

Investor at Stellar Development Foundation

Denelle Dixon

Investor at Stellar Development Foundation

Ginger Baker

Board of Directors at Stellar Development Foundation

Frequently asked questions

Who is Patrick Collison?: Patrick Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010 and has run it since — a company valued at $159 billion in its February 2026 tender offer, processing $1.9 trillion of payment volume in 2025 and robustly profitable. A Limerick teenager who won Ireland's Young Scientist competition at 16 for a LISP-like programming language, he dropped out of MIT, sold his first company Auctomatic at 19, and became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 28. Beyond Stripe he co-founded the Arc Institute and Fast Grants, publishes through Stripe Press, and joined Meta's board in 2025.
Where does Patrick Collison work?: Patrick Collison is Co-founder & CEO of Stripe and Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation and Founder at Auctomatic.
What companies did Patrick Collison found?: Patrick Collison founded Stripe, Auctomatic.
What boards does Patrick Collison sit on?: Patrick Collison holds tracked board seats at Meta Platforms.
What companies has Patrick Collison invested in?: Investments tracked here include California Forever, Esmeralda.
Where did Patrick Collison go to school?: Patrick Collison studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mathematics (incomplete)).
What podcasts and interviews feature Patrick Collison?: Tracked appearances include "Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions", "On Innovation, Human Agency, and Government Spending", "A conversation with Jony Ive", and 4 more.