Patrick Collison is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on September 9, 1988 in Dromineer, Ireland. He was able to secure funding in Stripe through He received backing for Stripe from Elon Musk..
Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen.
Collison entered the 40th Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with his project on artificial intelligence (nicknamed ‘Isaac’ after Isaac Newton, whom Patrick admired), finishing as individual runner-up. He re-entered the following year, and won first place at the age of sixteen on 14 January 2005. His project involved the creation of Croma, a LISP-type programming language.
His parents have names: Lily as well as Denis. He has a younger brother who is named Tommy.
He was the winner of an award at the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the age of 16 in 2005. He was interviewed by WIRED25 in October, 2018.
Patrick Collison was born to Lily and Denis Collison in 1988. The eldest of three boys (two younger brothers, John and Tommy), he took his first computer course when he was eight years old at the University of Limerick and began learning computer programming at the age of ten.
