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How I Built This · September 17, 2018 · 50m
Stripe: Patrick & John Collison
Two brothers from rural Ireland — Patrick dropped out of MIT at 19, John out of Harvard — built Stripe because accepting payments online was absurdly difficult. Seven lines of code to integrate. Cold-emailed potential customers as teenagers.
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The Collison brothers read obsessively — not business books but intellectual history, science, economics. Patrick maintains a personal library of thousands of books and credits reading as Stripe's competitive advantage: 'the best ideas come from outside your industry.'
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