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Founder491Current founder
100th percentile
Investor126Current investor
97th percentile
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Co-founder and President of Stripe, valued at $91.5B
Credibility
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Traction · 100th percentile
- Stripe last valued at ~$91.5B as a still-private company.
- Co-founder and current President of Stripe.
- Past founder of Shuppa/Auctomatic, sold to Live Current Media in 2008.
- Exit: Auctomatic acquired by Live Current Media for $5M in 2008.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Co-founder and current President of Stripe.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick Collison.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia entry confirms notability as a prominent entrepreneur.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator alum — Stripe was in YC Summer 2009.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Stripe last valued at ~$91.5B as a still-private company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)stripe.com ranks #154 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Shuppa/Auctomatic, sold to Live Current Media in 2008.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind stripe/stripe-node, a flagship open-source project with 4,431 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Exit: Auctomatic acquired by Live Current Media for $5M in 2008.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor in fintech, dev tools, and infrastructure.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Has made 32 angel investments per CB Insights, most recently in Centivax (Series A-II, 2026).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Portfolio acquisition: Paystack acquired by Stripe for ~$200M.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Backed Entrepreneur First in its $158M round at $560M valuation.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio acquisition: Bridge acquired by Stripe (stablecoin platform).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately $28.46M deployed across known angel checks.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Investing for 15+ years since first Stripe-era checks circa 2010.
What you likely need
You get the most out of rooms that already operate at your altitude — fellow unicorn-stage founders, infrastructure-native investors, and the senior AI talent Stripe needs to close this year. The highest-leverage Festival moments for you are closed-door, low-agenda, and built around one reframing conversation rather than broad networking. Expect events calibrated to pre-IPO liquidity sequencing, agentic-commerce platform theses, and the founder-philanthropist positioning work you're doing in parallel.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA closed-door CFO and founder roundtable for Stripe, Klarna, and Chime-tier late-stage private companies to pressure-test tender offer sequencing and personal liquidity pacing ahead of live IPO windows
- positioningA founder-investor dinner for operators-turned-angels building public infrastructure theses around stablecoins, agentic commerce, and dev tools — structured to pressure-test and codify an annual-letter-style investing framework
- tacticalA portfolio construction roundtable with high-volume operator-angels who have Bridge and Paystack-pattern exits in the room to stress-test follow-on allocation rubrics across 30-plus-company fintech infrastructure portfolios
- introsA YC S09 alum-hosted founder dinner seeded with Stripe's top API customers — high-trust, low-agenda, and designed as a warm relationship channel for the next Paystack-tier acquisition conversation
- hiringA recruiting dinner for senior AI and agentic-commerce executives being courted by Stripe, Shopify, and Adyen — framed explicitly around the infrastructure platform shift John outlined in the Stripe annual letter
- positioningA small dinner for founder-philanthropists funding economic policy and civic infrastructure work at the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council tier to compare notes on differentiated institutional positioning and long-horizon compounding
- wellbeingA half-day offsite for founder-CEOs running a top-decile operating company alongside a 20-plus-company angel portfolio — structured around auditing time allocation between diligence cycles and operating leverage