Stripe
Payments in seven lines of code, from two teenage brothers in rural Ireland.
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Patrick and John Collison grew up in a village in County Limerick and taught themselves to code. As teenagers they built Auctomatic and sold it for $5M — Patrick was 19, John 17. Then they fixed the thing every developer hated: taking a payment online, reduced to seven lines of code. Stripe now processes over a trillion dollars a year and is valued around $90B. It is the payments rail under most of the vibe-coded products in this index.
Why it's indexed
- Valued around $90B; processes well over $1T a year.
- 'Seven lines of code' turned payments into a developer product.
- The default checkout for indie and AI-built apps.
Coverage
Founder short: the Collison brothers & StripeFounder short
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