Forbes estimated Patrick Collison's net worth at $17.5 billion in August 2026. Nearly all of it comes from his stake in Stripe, the payments company he co-founded with his brother John and leads as CEO.
The figure has risen steadily. Forbes put him at no less than $1.1 billion in November 2016, after an investment in Stripe, and Bloomberg credited each brother with at least $3.2 billion in 2017. Stripe is private, so all of these numbers rest on the price of its shares in funding rounds and tender offers.
Stripe began in 2010 in Palo Alto and launched publicly in September 2011, after a private beta. Its first outside money, $2 million in May 2011, came from investors including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel and Andreessen Horowitz.
The valuation reached $9.2 billion in 2016 and $95 billion in March 2021. A round in March 2023 cut it to $50 billion. A tender offer in February 2025 valued Stripe at $91.5 billion, and one in February 2026 at $159 billion. The company said it processed $1.9 trillion in payments in 2025, up 34 percent.