Rank #163
John Collison
Net worth $17.5B
Payment software · Ireland
- Born
- Aug 06, 1990
- Age
- 35
- Source
- Payment software
- Residence
- San Francisco , California
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, Harvard University
Net worth over time
Biography
- John Collison is cofounder and president of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.
- Private investors valued Stripe at $159 billion in February 2026.
- John and his brother Patrick hatched the idea for Stripe while both were in college in Cambridge at MIT.
- The company's first payment was processed while both were on vacation in South America.
- John was born and raised in the countryside near Limerick, Ireland, where his parents ran a lakeside hotel.
- John and Patrick Collison took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.
- The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.