Patrick and John Collison grew up in Dromineer, a village in rural Ireland. By their teens they’d won national science …
By Andreessen Horowitz · AI
Patrick and John Collison grew up in Dromineer, a village in rural Ireland. By their teens they’d won national science prizes and built their first company, Shuppa, which evolved into Auctomatic - a tool for heavy eBay sellers and sold for $5 million before John was 18. In 2010 they founded Stripe with a simple premise: accepting payments online shouldn’t take six weeks and a team of lawyers. It should take seven lines of code. Today, Stripe is one of the most valuable private companies in the…