Stripe Founders Shed Billions in Painful Shift to ‘Leaner Times’

  • John and Patrick Collison’s net worth has dropped almost 50%
  • They still rank as the richest self-made billionaires under 35
Patrick Collison, left, and John Collison.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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John and Patrick Collison became two of the world’s richest millennials over the past decade as Stripe Inc.’s valuation surged more than 5,000% — an ascent emblematic of the easy-money era.

It hasn’t been so easy of late.