“Do anything you want, study whatever you want, but just don’t drop out of college like your brother.” These were the infamous words of Lily Collison to her middle son John, as he left his childhood home in the West of Ireland in August 2009, to enrol in Harvard. Two months later John was sitting with his brother Patrick, writing the first lines of code for the company that would go on to become Stripe, the payments behemoth most recently valued at $95 billion. Spoiler alert: John dropped out of college.  “It was all downhill from there,” Patrick Collison said…

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