2026-10-29
Patrick & John Collison: Replacing Four Weeks of Banking Bureaucracy with Seven Lines of Code — How Two Teen Prodigies from Rural Ireland Built the Economic Infrastructure of the Internet
Ranked #43 on the 100 Product Managers Who Changed the World: Patrick & John Collison (Co-founders of Stripe), OVR 88.10 (Taste 92, Business 92, Vision 90, Insight 90, Originality 85, Scale 83). Growing up in a tiny lakeside village in County Limerick, Ireland, the Collison brothers became teenage millionaires at 19 and 17 before discovering how broken online payments were. By turning a four-week merchant bank ordeal into seven lines of copy-pasteable code, they built a $1.4 trillion/year financial engine.
