It is all too easy to oversimplify the success and trajectory of John and Patrick Collison. Perhaps that is because we all like an easily digestible, feel-good narrative. Two brothers, both geniuses, from the village of Dromineer in Co Tipperary, wrote some code and changed the internet. Along the way, they built the one of the world’s most valuable private companies (the most recent valuation for Stripe was $159 billion (€137 billion) and made themselves impossibly rich. Yet, when we think of the Collison brothers, we often imagine them as teenagers collecting trophies at the Young Scientist of the Year…

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