FOUNDER PROFILE

John Collison

Co-founded Stripe with Patrick Collison. The brothers’ annual letters explain the company’s approach to products, customers and the internet economy.

Original biography & background

Co-founder

Explore the businesses.

Fintech

Stripe

Provides infrastructure for payments, billing, tax, financial operations, and money movement for businesses and software platforms.

Payment processing, billing, tax and embedded financial tools serve businesses of different sizes. Payment volume, net revenue and software revenue are distinct measures; customer volume is not Stripe revenue.

Company research Follow Stripe updates →

Hear the company’s perspective.

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2024-02-21

Patrick Collison — building, progress and payments

A long-form founder discussion; compare the operating philosophy with Stripe’s later company disclosures.

Watch on YouTube ↗