Patrick Collison

Billionaire, Entrepreneur, Executive, Inventor

Patrick Collison is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen.

Patrick Collison's 164 Book Recommendations

• Plagues and Peoples
• Pacific
• Mindstorms
• Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• Organizing Genius
• Freedom's Forge
• The Beginning of Infinity
• Perspective on McKinsey
• Electronic Payment Systems for E-commerce
• A Shot to Save the World
• The Infidel and the Professor
• Scientific Freedom
• Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
• Reasons and Persons
• The Inner Game of Tennis
• Masters of Doom
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth
• The Enlightened Economy
• A Culture of Growth
• Tuxedo Park
• Wind, Sand and Stars
• Wittgenstein's Vienna
• How Asia Works
• Toward a Theory of Instruction
• Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
• Scramble for Africa...
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• Whole Earth Discipline
• The Old Way
• The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set) I-IV
• Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
• The Planet Remade
• The Ocean of Life
• The Man Behind the Microchip
• The Cowshed
• The Hunters
• The Dream Machine
• The Feminine Mystique
• The Journalist and the Murderer
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
• The Arabs
• Technics and Civilization
• The Chip
• The City in History
• Sum
• The Big Score
• The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
• Stuff Matters
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
• Quantum Computing Since Democritus
• Season of the Witch
• Popper Selections
• Postcards from Tomorrow Square
• River Town
• Spacetime and Geometry
• Plato at the Googleplex
• Poor Charlie's Almanack
• Orality and Literacy
• On Lisp
• The Intelligent Investor
• Nixonland
• Out of Mao's Shadow
• Nixon Agonistes
• Ocean Flying
• The Mind-Body Problem
• The Myth of the Machine
• Longitude
• Midnight's Children
• Moral Mazes
• Metamagical Themas
• Medieval Technology and Social Change
• Matterhorn
• Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
• Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)
• Justice as Fairness
• Foucault's Pendulum
• Feynman Lectures On Computation
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
• Global Catastrophic Risks
• I Didn't Do It for You
• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
• Hard Landing
• Expert Political Judgment
• Dracula (Original Edition)
• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
• China Airborne
• Democracy in America
• Business Adventures
• Dealers of Lightning
• Computer Lib
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Anthropic Bias
• A Pattern Language
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
• A Course in Mathematical Analysis
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• A Vast Machine
• Modern Operating Systems
• The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
• Asimovs Gt Science
• On the Shortness of Life
• A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
• The Long Way
• Science: A History, 1543-2001
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
• On Intelligence
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism: “From Counterculture to Cyberculture -- Stewart Brand and his surrounding milieu.”
• Genentech: “Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech -- the definitive history of Genentech.”
• Skunk Works: “Skunk Works. The Lockheed Martin facility behind the U-2, SR-71, etc.”
• Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970: “Making Silicon Valley -- there aren't many books that say a lot about the Valley pre-Shockley; this one goes back to the 30s.”
• Show-Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft: “There's a closely-related genre of great books (like Masters of Doom and Show-Stopper) that cover important projects in the industry's history.”
• Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century: “(Also worth reading Endless Frontier. Broader influence of NDRC is underestimated, as far as I can tell.)”
• The Idea Factory: “The Idea Factory. The definitive book about Bell Labs.”
• Return to the Little Kingdom: “The Little Kingdom -- the early days of Apple Computer and the Macintosh.”
• Revolution in The Valley: “Revolution in The Valley -- a hundred stories from the early days of the Mac, collected by one of its creators.”
• Swimming Across: “Swimming Across -- Andy Grove's memoir.”
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb: “The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Book about the Manhattan Project.”
• Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake: “Sidewinder. A history of the development of the Sidewinder missile and of the China Lake Navy research lab.”
• Doing the Impossible: George E. Mueller and the Management of NASA's Human Spaceflight Program: “Doing the Impossible. How George Mueller managed the Apollo Program.”
• Middlemarch: “For me the clear standouts are Middlemarch, Bleak House, Karenina, and Life and Fate. I would enthusiastically reread any of them. If I had to choose just one to go to again, I would probably select Middlemarch.”
• Bleak House: “For me the clear standouts are Middlemarch, Bleak House, Karenina, and Life and Fate. I would enthusiastically reread any of them.”
• Anna Karenina: “For me the clear standouts are Middlemarch, Bleak House, Karenina, and Life and Fate. I would enthusiastically reread any of them.”
• Life and Fate: “For me the clear standouts are Middlemarch, Bleak House, Karenina, and Life and Fate. I would enthusiastically reread any of them.”
• The World of Yesterday: “I feel like I gained much more understanding of historical Vienna and of the emotions around WWI from reading Zweig's memoir than from any direct history of the period.”
• Titan: “Titan is an impressive work, clearly the product of prodigious research.”
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age: “I *highly* recommend @LeslieBerlinSV's new history of Silicon Valley”
• The Alchemy of Air: “Very highly recommend both of these Thomas Hager books ... A+.”
• The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug: “Very highly recommend both of these Thomas Hager books ... A+.”
• The Power Law: “Agree; by far the best book I've read on the sector.”
• Capitalism without Capital: “Yes, great book”
• Superintelligence: “Nick Bostrom's new book is excellent”
• Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery: “Warsh's book is indeed really good.”
• The Coddling of the American Mind: “@JonHaidt's excellent 'The Coddling of the American Mind'”
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: “turns out Herman's book is great”
• Napoleon: A Life: “Vacation over. Top book picks”
• Zero to One: “just released a very good book”
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century: “Highly recommended”
• Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein: “Yes, exactly! That is a great book.”
• The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs: “they'd conclude that this one is the best”
• Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice: “great book!”
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: “Cory Doctorow wrote a great book about Dogecoin in 2003”
• Mathematics and Climate: “I highly recommend”
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium: “The book itself is well worth reading.”
• Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World: “An excellent new book ... Run, don't walk!”
• Victorian Pumping Stations: “I enjoyed”
• The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma: “I've been enjoying”
• Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit: “one of the best books I've read on financial services regulation. Recommended!”
• Nuclear War: A Scenario: “Have been thinking about this book a lot since I read it.”
• Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy: “it's a very good book”
• The Pentagon: A History: “a very engaging book about project management”
• The Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation: “A very good book about why houses are expensive.”
• Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language: “this one is a gem”
• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle: “If you want to wrap your head around what Larry Ellison accomplished, this is the book”
• Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland: “I really enjoyed your book about Poland”
• Kelly: More Than My Share of It All: “(See also: Kelly Johnson's 14 Rules, Kelly Johnson's own memoir, Augustine's Laws, Boyd, and National Defense.)”
• Augustine's Laws: “(See also: Kelly Johnson's 14 Rules, Kelly Johnson's own memoir, Augustine's Laws, Boyd, and National Defense.)”
• Boyd: “(See also: Kelly Johnson's 14 Rules, Kelly Johnson's own memoir, Augustine's Laws, Boyd, and National Defense.)”
• Moby Dick: “I listened to much of the book, and thought the narration by William Hootkins was just fantastic.”
• The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction: “Two nice recent books”
• Whole Earth Field Guide: “Two nice recent books”
• Are Prisons Obsolete?: “important, excellent rec from @annawiener”