Patrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe and a co-founder of Arc Institute. He serves as a Board Director at Meta, having joined the board effective April 15, 2025. He previously co-founded Auctomatic, a company building tools for eBay sellers that was sold to Live Current Media in 2008. Patrick Collison's Twitter Score is 696 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026. Patrick Collison ranks #119 (top 0.1%) out of 498,181 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Patrick Collison has been a vocal participant in the digital payments and stablecoin landscape. Stripe acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, with the deal announced in October 2024 and completed in February 2025. When announcing the acquisition, he called stablecoins "room-temperature superconductors" for financial services. Stripe accepts stablecoin payments from customers in over 70 countries, settling in USDC on Solana, Ethereum, or Polygon. He testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on stablecoin legislation at a hearing titled "Navigating the Digital Payments Ecosystem" on March 11, 2025.
Patrick Collison also co-incubated Tempo, a payments-focused layer-1 blockchain, with Paradigm. Tempo raised a $500 million Series A at a $5 billion valuation in October 2025 and launched its mainnet on March 18, 2026. Stripe's valuation reached $91.5 billion in a February 2025 secondary stock offering. Forbes estimated Patrick Collison's net worth at $17.5 billion as of June 2026. On Twitter, Patrick Collison has 1,840,472 followers as of October 2026 and 10,315 posts, and is mentioned by 912 accounts across 2,883 total mentions.
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