And Patrick met his now wife when the pair were both 17 and she walked away with the top prize in the 2005 EU Young Scientist competition - leaving him in second place.
Silvana won the Moscow contest with an invention that developed a treatment to prevent urinary tract infections in people who have to use a catheterpost-operation.
The Irish billionaire grabbed second prize with a project thatcreated an online programming language.
The 33-year-old announced his engagement to Silvana on Twitter in 2019 but did not publicly name her at the time.
Last year, Patrick's brother John shelled out €20million on one of the country’s largest and most prestigious manors.
The tech billionaire purchased the 18th century Abbey Leix Estate in, Abbeyleix, Co Laois.
The main house, designed in 1773 by the architect James Wyatt, consists of nine bedrooms, ten bathrooms, 117 windows and an interior space of 27,000 sq ft.
It sits on a 1,120-acre demesne, which includes ten estate houses and cottages, a large area of ancient native woodland and walled gardens.
It also boasts the oldest surviving oak tree in Ireland, along with a stud farm, a quadrangle, and a clock tower fashioned out of local limestone and dating from 1822.
It was owned by the de Vesci family for three hundred years before it was acquired by the David Davies in 1995, a British engineer and businessman whose family put down roots in Ireland in the 1940s.
Davies put Abbey Leix Estate on the market with a view to downsizing to his family’s original Irish home, a Georgian house in Killoughter in Co Wicklow.
Irish tech billionaire Patrick Collison has married his childhood sweetheart, Swiss scientist Silvana Konermann in a romantic private ceremony in Italy. It's believed the couple made it official back in April, but news of the nuptials is only now emerging.
Personal life. In April 2022, Collison married Swiss-American biochemist Silvana Konermann with whom he co-founded the Arc Institute. Collison met Konnermann during the 2004 EU Young Scientist competition.
Collison himself is not actually a director but would be rather familiar with the couple who have been appointed in his stead, Denis and Lily Collison, the parents of John and his equally minted older brother, Patrick.
John Collison (born 6 August 1990) is an Irish entrepreneur and the co-founder and President of Stripe which he co-founded in 2010 with his brother Patrick. Collison was the youngest self made billionaire in 2016.
The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million. Patrick and John took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.
Here's how the venture capitalist Chris Sacca described Patrick via The Tim Ferriss Show: Patrick is quite literally one of the smartest people I've ever known. Like, he puts Larry Page on his heels smart. I don't know anyone who has 1) read more books and 2) has the near photographic memory for what he has read.
Limerick brothers John and Patrick Collison became Ireland's youngest self-made billionaires after founding the Stripe payments app. They founded the company in 2010 and are now based in San Francisco. The online payment firm count Amazon, Google, Facebook, Deliveroo and Shopify among their users.
Limerick brothers and founders of payments platform. Stripe, John and Patrick Collison, each saw their net. worth grow to $7.2bn. According to Forbes World's Billionaires List, there a...
John Collison's major achievements include: Co-founding Stripe, a leading technology company in the fintech industry. Becoming the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2016, at the age of 26.
On top of being the youngest person ever to summit the world's highest peaks on each continent, the so-called 7 summits, earning him a place in the Guinness book or world records, Johnny Collinson is an accomplished mountaineer, climber, and free skier.
Stripe founder and Limerick billionaire John Collison is planning a new use for the ruined Laois mansion he snapped up last year. Mr Collison who owns Abbey Leix House and the 1,000 acre estate, bought up the atmospheric derelict mansion on the edge of the grounds for a bargain price in 2022 of €400,000.
The deal will value Stripe at $65 billion, the people said. That is up from its $50 billion valuation nearly a year ago but significantly below its $95 billion valuation in 2021.
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