About

Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, software engineer, and avid thinker based in San Francisco, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Stripe.

Alongside his brother John Collison, he founded Stripe in 2010 to build the economic infrastructure for the internet, transforming how global commerce operates online. Passionate about institutional design and scientific acceleration, he co-founded the Arc Institute—a non-profit biomedical research organization exploring human disease, genetics, and AI—and established Stripe Press to publish foundational books on economic and technological progress.

On his personal website patrickcollison.com, he curates thought-provoking lists, extensive bibliographies, and occasional essays exploring “Progress Studies,” the history of rapid technological breakthroughs, metascience, economics, and human flourishing.