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Patrick and John Collison built Stripe from 7 lines of code into a $65B payments infrastructure company. How two Irish brothers dropped out of MIT and Harvard to make internet payments work for developers, becoming the plumbing of the internet economy.
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Before Stripe, integrating payments took weeks of bank paperwork and hundreds of lines of code. Stripe reduced it to 7 lines. By removing friction from the developer environment, they changed the behavior of an entire industry.
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Patrick and John Collison are legendary readers who built their business frameworks from books. Patrick's reading list — spanning economics, history, science, and literature — shaped Stripe's long-term thinking and ambitious scope.