Startup Grind hosts Stripe Founder Patrick Collison

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THERE ARE ADDITIONAL TICKETS AVAILABLE ON EVENTBRITE. CLICK HERE (http://sgsv0412.eventbrite.com/). In 2005 at the age of 16, Patrick Collison (http://commonred.com/project/twitter/patrickc) was the recipient of the 41st Young Scientist of the Year for his work with Lisp. Before Patrick’s last year of High School he left early to attend MIT. During his first quarter of freshman year, Patrick founded Auctomatic and joined Y Combinator. At the age of 19 and ten months after incorporating, the company was bought by Live Current Media for $5MM. In early 2010 John and his brother Patrick began working on Stripe together. It was recently announced that Striperaised $18MM at a $100MM valuation. Excited to have him tell his story first at Startup Grind.

StartupGrind.com (http://startupgrind.com/) is an event series and blog that helps startups be successful. It's also a place entrepreneurs network with the top industry talent that speak at our events.

The Agenda:

6pm - Networking

7pm - Fireside Chat With Patrick

8pm - Networking/Light Dinner

Reserve early. Seating is limited.