Patrick Collison is an Irish computer programmer and co-founder of Stripe.
At age sixteen, he enrolled in MIT, based on the SAT he had taken at age thirteen. John followed him to the US, and in 2007 they started their first company, Auctomatic (an auction and marketplace management system), with Kulveer Taggar. Auctomatic was accepted into startup accelerator Y Combinator, and within ten months since inception the company was acquired by Canada's Live Current Media for $5 million.