Summary
Patrick 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