- Meet Patrick Collison
- co-founder of stripe
- self-made millionaire at 19
- self-made billionaire at 26
- Dropped out of MIT
- Grew up in a small village
- Taught himself programming at age 10
- Won the Young Scientist award at 16
- Started a company called Auctomatic at 18
- Sold it for about $5 million at age 19
- Saw problems with online payments
- Co-founded Stripe with his brother
- Made online payments as simple as a few lines of code
- Kept clean documentation
- Fast and easy integration
- Developers loved it
- spread quietly across startups
- Later used by companies like Shopify, Amazon, and Google
- Became a backbone of internet payments infrastructure
- Reads philosophy, economics, and history
- known for deep thinking
- Still codes
- Still writes essays
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