Editing Patrick Collison (section)

===Stripe===
In 2010, Collison co-founded [[Stripe, Inc.|Stripe]], which in 2011 received investment of $2 million including from PayPal co-founders [[Elon Musk]] and [[Peter Thiel]], and venture capital firms [[Sequoia Capital]], [[Andreessen Horowitz]], and [[SV Angel]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/stealth-payment-startup-stripe-paypal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212091815/https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/stealth-payment-startup-stripe-paypal/ |archive-date=12 February 2017 |access-date=8 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="telegraph-20210223" />

In November 2016, the Collison brothers became the world's youngest self-made billionaires, worth at least $1.1 billion, after an investment in Stripe from CapitalG and [[General Catalyst|General Catalyst Partners]] valued the company at $9.2 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mac |first=Ryan |title=Stripe Investment Makes Cofounder The World's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire |newspaper=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/11/28/stripe-investment-makes-cofounder-the-worlds-youngest-self-made-billionaire/#4e3a548d41b4 |url-status=live |access-date=2 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413012150/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/11/28/stripe-investment-makes-cofounder-the-worlds-youngest-self-made-billionaire/#4e3a548d41b4 |archive-date=13 April 2019}}</ref> By 2017, the brothers were notionally worth at least $3.2 billion each.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-08-01 |title=How Two 20-Somethings From Ireland Built a $9.2 Billion Company |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup |url-status=live |access-date=2017-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529035451/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup |archive-date=29 May 2019}}</ref>

In 2018, Stripe, under the direction of the Collison brothers, contributed $1 million to [[YIMBY#United States|California YIMBY]], a pro-housing development lobbying organisation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Torres |first=Blanca |date=2018-05-03 |title=Are tech CEOs finally tackling the Bay Area housing crisis? Stripe jumps into the fight |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/05/03/tech-ceos-housing-crisis-stripe-salesforce-yelp.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027152429/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/05/03/tech-ceos-housing-crisis-stripe-salesforce-yelp.html |archive-date=27 October 2020 |website=San Francisco Business Times}}</ref>

In September 2019, it was announced that Stripe had raised an additional $250 million at a valuation of $35 billion.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Metcalf |first1=Tom |last2=Verhage |first2=Julie |title=Stripe Brothers Become Richest Self-Made Irish Billionaires |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/stripe-brothers-become-ireland-s-richest-self-made-billionaires |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920180144/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/stripe-brothers-become-ireland-s-richest-self-made-billionaires |archive-date=20 September 2019 |access-date=21 September 2019 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> Together, the brothers hold a [[controlling interest]] in Stripe.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rudegeair |first=Peter |date=26 September 2018 |title=Payments Fintech Stripe Valued at $20 Billion in Latest Funding Round |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/payments-fintech-stripe-valued-at-20-billion-in-latest-funding-round-1537994284 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203210757/https://www.wsj.com/articles/payments-fintech-stripe-valued-at-20-billion-in-latest-funding-round-1537994284 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |access-date=3 February 2020 |via=www.wsj.com}}</ref>