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Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The youngest billionaire in the world who has not inherited wealth but has built it with his own businesses, says intelligence and non-stop work are not the only reasons for success. You should be lucky. 27-year-old John Collison and his brother, Patrick Collison, have established “String”, [...]
The youngest billionaire in the world who has not inherited wealth but has built it with his own businesses, says intelligence and non-stop work are not the only reasons for success.
You should be lucky.
27-year-old John Collison and his brother, Patrick Collison, have established “Stripe”, a programme used as payment system for large companies such as Target, Lyft, and Kickstarter. The value of the company on the market, which he already runs from the top of technology, San Francisco, totals $9.2 billion.
In an interview, however, success comes not only from the talent, intelligence, or skill of the two brothers but also from fate.
Had their hard work on staff and their ingenious ideas for making changes, it would have been impossible to get here. But he admits that there are many other groups in the world that are equally clever and as hard - working but that do not succeed. Good luck, therefore, is another reason for great success. ”
John was born in an Irish village where he went to Boston to continue his studies. There he decided with his brother to build a computer program that was then used by E-Bay, which they sold for $5 million.
With the sales money they founded a new company, Stripe, which is used as a payment system by giants such as Allianz, Booking.com, Zillow, Target, Lyft, Kickstarter, ec
