The Profile: John and Patrick Collison, founders of Stripe
The Tipperary tech prodigies have seen their payments platform balloon to $95 billion in value. Now they plan to create 1,000 high-quality jobs in Ireland
In brief:
Names: John and Patrick Collison
Ages: 30 and 32
Appearances: youthful-looking, low-profile
Newsworthiness: Stripe, their payments company, is now valued at $95 billion, making it the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley
In depth:
In Buenos Aires in 2009, two pale-faced brothers sat behind laptops writing code, drinking coffee. Back then, the Argentinian capital had an underground reputation as being an entire city on a hacker schedule: it was sunny, cafes were ...
