FOUNDER PROFILE

Patrick Collison

Co-founded Stripe with his brother John. The business began with developer-friendly online payments and expanded into financial infrastructure.

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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.

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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.

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