From Tipperary to Silicon Valley: how Stripe became vital cog in digital economy
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#5FEGG)
Brothers Patrick and John Collison's online payments empire is now valued at $95bn
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.
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