John Collison Biography
John Collison is a billionaire Irish entrepreneur and the co-founder and President of Stripe, which he co-founded with his brother Patrick in 2010. In 2016, Collison was the youngest self-made billionaire.
How old is John Collison? – Age
He is 32 years old as of 6 August 2022. He was born in 1990 in Dromineer, Ireland.
John Collison Family
Patrick was born of Dromineer in County Tipperary his parents were microbiologist Lily and electronic engineer Denis Collison. His brother Patrick Collison is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur.
John Collison Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion.
John Collison Stripe, Inc.
Collison co-founded Stripe in 2010, with funding from Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Sequoia Capital. Stripe, Inc. is an Irish-American financial services and software as a service (SaaS) firm with offices in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland. The primary products of the company are payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.
John Collison Career
In 2007, Collison established “Shuppa”[a] with his more seasoned sibling Patrick in Limerick, Ireland. The organization later converged with Auctomatic, which was subsidized by Y Combinator, and Collison moved to Silicon Valley. Auctomatic was a product organization that fabricated instruments for the eBay stage. The organization was likewise supported by Chris Sacca. Auctomatic was obtained for $5 million in Walk 2008, when Collison was 17.
In 2009, Collison (having gotten back to complete auxiliary school at Castletroy School) got 8 A1 and 2 A2 grades in the Irish Leaving Testament assessment. He kept on learning at Harvard College, starting his examinations in September 2009. Collison is a pilot and a musician. In November 2016, the Collison siblings turned into the world’s most youthful independent very rich people, actually worth $1.1 billion, after an interest in Stripe from CapitalG and General Impetus esteemed the organization at $9.2 billion. Around the same time, 2016, John was positioned by Forbes the fifteenth in the rundown America’s Most extravagant Business people Under 40.
In 2018, Stripe, under the heading of the Collison siblings, contributed $1 million to California YIMBY, a favorable to lodging improvement campaigning association. The Collison siblings are residents of Ireland.
In 2021 and 2022, Collison purchased the Abbeyleix Domain and the forsaken Millbrook House, adjoining properties in Area Laois, Ireland. He has expressed he will spend a few huge number of euros over certain years reestablishing Millbrook House to make a family home.