Stripe Founders Are Youngest Irish Billionaires With Funding
- Online payment company is worth $9 billion with funding round
- Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010
Stripe Founders Become Ireland’s Youngest Billionaires
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The brothers who co-founded online payments service Stripe Inc. have become Ireland’s youngest billionaires after a $150 million funding round valued the business at $9 billion.
Patrick and John Collison own about 29 percent of the business, based on an analysis of filings by private stock market Equidate. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index net worth calculation splits the founder ownership pool equally between the two, giving them each a $1.1 billion stake.