Patrick Collison
CEO at Arc Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe with 17 years of experience building high-scale fintech infrastructure from the ground up. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep technical instincts—grounded in an incomplete mathematics education at MIT—with a founder’s knack for product and platform design that has reshaped online payments and developer tooling. He also co-founded Auctomatic and the Arc Institute, signaling a long-term commitment to entrepreneurship and scientific philanthropy. Known for a minimalist public persona (“I type things at Stripe”), he focuses on engineering-driven strategy and operational rigor that scale across global markets. Patrick’s career blends hands-on product development with strategic leadership, consistently turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into elegant, developer-friendly solutions.
17 years of coding experience
Mathematics (incomplete), Mathematics (incomplete) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Irish, French, German
Stackoverflow
36reputation
210reached
1answer
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Github Skills (64)
stripe10
keyboard-shortcuts10
shortcuts10
stripe-payments10
java10
screensaver10
macos-big-sur10
api10
payment10
php-library10
window-management10
apple-pay10
google-pay10
stripe-api10
api-client9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cannikin/stripe-ruby
Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 11 months
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