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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe
About Patrick Collison
In 2010, while most payment APIs required merchants to embed clunky JavaScript or redirect users to third-party pages, Patrick Collison and his brother John shipped Stripe’s first version, a clean REST API with no redirects, no iframes, and documentation written for developers, not compliance officers. That decision wasn’t just technical; it reflected a deep conviction that infrastructure should disappear into the background so builders could focus on what matters: creating value. He later pushed Stripe beyond payments into banking-as-a-service, tax automation, and global payout rails, each time insisting on developer-first design, rigorous documentation, and shipping before the market asked. His 2016 essay 'On Complacency' critiqued Silicon Valley’s obsession with growth over depth, arguing that real progress lies in solving hard, unglamorous problems like cross-border settlement latency or invoice reconciliation at scale. Based in Dublin but operating globally, he maintains an unusually hands-on role in engineering reviews and API design decisions, rare for a CEO of a $50B+ company.
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- “How did Stripe’s original API design choices change how startups thought about payments?”
- “What made you decide to build Radar for fraud detection in-house instead of using vendors?”
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