Founder Profile
Patrick Collison
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Patrick Collison?
Patrick Collison is a founder of Stripe, Inc., which was founded in 2010 with John Collison.
- Company founded
- Stripe, Inc.
- Founded
- 2010
- Co-founders
- John Collison
Background
Patrick Collison grew up in Dromineer, County Tipperary, won Ireland's BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005, and briefly attended MIT before leaving to build software companies.
Founding Story
Patrick Collison is Stripe's co-founder and CEO. Before Stripe he co-founded Auctomatic, an eBay seller-tools startup that was acquired in 2008. In 2010 he and his brother John started Stripe to make online payments easy for developers to integrate. He has led the company from a developer API into a broad financial infrastructure platform spanning payments, billing, tax, stablecoins and, from 2026, AI model routing through the planned OpenRouter acquisition.
Patrick Collison was born in 1988 in Limerick. Education: Castletroy College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.