John Collison (born 1990) is an Irish student and entrepreneur. He is most well known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick Collison. Read full biography of John Collison →
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is... →
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an... →
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product... →
Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area... →
With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the... →
Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.
I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and... →
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just... →
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer... →
John Collison (born 1990) is an Irish student and entrepreneur. He is most well known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick Collison.