Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
Seven lines of code instead of a merchant account
Rating
82Impact score
Domains
PaymentsDeveloper platformsAPIs
Scouting report
Founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010, when accepting a card online meant weeks of paperwork with a bank, and replaced it with an API you could integrate in an afternoon. The company set the standard for what developer documentation is expected to look like, and open-sourced Sorbet, a gradual type checker for Ruby now used well beyond Stripe.
Curator’s note
Made the payments industry answer to developers rather than procurement.
Sources
- 01Patrick Collison en.wikipedia.org
- 02Stripe en.wikipedia.org
- 03Sorbet sorbet.org