Stripe is a software system that allows firms of all sizes to more easily collect payments, and run other parts of their websites, such as safely storing customer data, and other security systems. With more than 100,000 global customers, last year it announced a new round of funding that valued the company at $9.2bn (£7bn). This means that John is worth at least $1.1bn, according to Forbes magazine.
Not bad forJohn and his brother who grew up in rural Republic of Ireland, and who both dropped out of university. Keen computer programmers as teenagers, John and Patrick grew up in a small village in County Tipperary, in the west of the country.
But even before John had started at Harvard, he and his brother had already become millionaires thanks to their first business venture, a software firm that enabled small firms and sole traders to do business more easily on the auction website eBay. Ultimately called Auctomatic, it was sold in 2008 for $5m (£3.8m) a year after they had set up its first iteration.
The brothers then turned their attention to Stripe, and continued to work on it together after John started at Harvard. They then both dropped out of university to launch Stripe in Silicon Valley, California.
Today Stripe has 750 employees, including 500 in San Francisco, and 150 overseas, including European offices in Dublin, London, Paris and Berlin.
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View previous comments…Endy Edeson
@Ajiboye, Zuckerberg is above 30 years and above the age to be tagged "youngest billionaire" in this context
Endy Edeson
Justtiin; True talk. It takes determination and the right tools to gain this kind of achievement
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