Tuesday, January 31, 2017

I just completed another youtube video on Y Combinator's Superstars
Patrick Collison and John Collison

Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ixh173Fuc

3 reasons I chose the Collison Brothers
1.   They are the world's youngest self-made billionaires at age 26 and age 27

2.    They fit my paradox of Small Country, Big Billionaires.  Ireland is a small country with less than 5 million population.  That makes Ireland smaller than Hong Kong and Israel.


3.    The global drive to easier on-line payment is just beginning

The Collison Brothers were born and raised in Limerick Ireland.  At age 16, Patrick won the Young Scientist and Exhibition Award 2004 and went on to study at MIT


Here is Patrick Collison with Prime Minister of Ireland in 2004

The Collison Borthers became Teenage Millionaires when they sold the company they co-founded with 2 Oxford University graudate for $5 Million in 2008.



The they founded Stripe in 2009 




Stripe is an online payment infrastructure company

Along the same tradition as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg,  Patrick Collison dropped out of MIT and John Collison dropped out of Harvard University to start STRIPE.






This is a Great Story.

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