From Tipperary to Silicon Valley: how Stripe became vital cog in digital economy
From Tipperary to Silicon Valley: how Stripe became vital cog in digital economy Alex Hern © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images The latest fundraising round by the digital payments firm Stripe has boosted the net worth of its co-founders, Patrick and John Collison, to about $11.5bn (£8.3bn) each, catapulting them into the top bracket of the world’s millennial billionaires. Not bad for two brothers from the tiny Tipperary village of Dromineer, population: barely 100. In little more than a decade the Collison brothers have developed Stripe, which has headqua...
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