Company · Finance · Software · founded 2010

Stripe

Online payments company founded by Patrick and John Collison.

Of the 4 people here linked to Stripe, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. 3 of them also appear at OpenAI. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: cnbc.com. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

4 people at Stripe

Founder

Role

Co-founder and CEO, 2010–now

Also at

Auctomatic Meta Platforms Arc Institute Y Combinator

Source · high confidence. Wikipedia and the Stripe article differ on the founding year (2009 in one infobox, 2010 in the history).

Still there

Finance · Technology · Software 2 / 1

Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe

comfortable · some · some college

Executive

Role

Early engineer; first CTO from 2013, 2010–2015

Also at

OpenAI

Source · high confidence

Past

Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 2 / 0

Greg Brockman

Co-founder and president, OpenAI; early engineer and first CTO, Stripe

professional · well-connected · some college

Investor

Role

Early investor

Also at

Loopt Airbnb Y Combinator Hydrazine Capital Reddit OpenAI Helion Energy

Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia names Stripe as a portfolio company and notes an early investment; whether he still holds it is not established.

Past

Artificial Intelligence · Venture Capital 2 / 2

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI; former president, Y Combinator

affluent professional · elite · some college