18-448: Croma may refer to: Croma (programming language) , a dialect of the Lisp programming language Cromā , an Indian retailer of consumer electronics Giulio Croma (died 1632), an Italian painter Fiat Croma , a car Italian for an eighth note in music See also [ edit ] Chroma (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
36-474: A dirty graffitied 10-foot-high barrier, like the Berlin Wall". The article received a lot of publicity online, causing a backlash. Collison tweeted "Not only mistaken about Limerick but the idea of 'overcoming' anything is crazy. We are who we are because we grew up where we did". John tweeted it was "daft". Patrick O'Donovan called on the magazine and author to apologise to the people of Limerick "for
54-468: A piece in The Atlantic with Michael Nielsen entitled Science is Getting Less Bang for its Buck , arguing that increased investment in science has not produced commensurate output. In 2019, Collison published an opinion piece in the same outlet with Tyler Cowen arguing for a new academic discipline called "Progress Studies", which would study the cultural and institutional conditions which lead to
72-470: A pro-housing development lobbying organisation. In September 2019, it was announced that Stripe had raised an additional $ 250 million at a valuation of $ 35 billion. Together, the brothers hold a controlling interest in Stripe. Both Collison and his younger brother John were featured on a young Irish persons rich list aired on an RTÉ television show during the 2008 Christmas period. On 18 July 2009, at
90-687: A street in Tel Aviv with the Israeli flag with the quote 'Great to be back in TelAviv. I missed this run'. A profile of the brothers published in Forbes in 2021 claimed the brothers had "escaped" from Limerick, describing it as a "warzone" because of a gang feud and it was "the 'murder capital' of Europe". It claimed "shootings, pipe bomb attacks, and stabbings" happened there every night. It also claimed that "Some bad neighbourhoods are even walled off by
108-703: A trophy of Waterford Crystal was presented to him by President Mary McAleese . His younger brother Tommy participated with his project on blogging in the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2010. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology , but eventually dropped out in 2009 after starting businesses. In 2007, he set up software company 'Shuppa' (a play on the Irish word siopa , meaning 'shop') in Limerick with his brother John Collison . Enterprise Ireland did not allocate funding to
126-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Croma (programming language) Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish-American 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. In 2020, he founded Fast Grants to accelerate COVID-19 -related science with Tyler Cowen . Patrick Collison
144-413: The 40th Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with his project on artificial intelligence (nicknamed 'Isaac' after Isaac Newton , whom Patrick admired), finishing as individual runner-up. He re-entered the following year, and won first place at the age of sixteen on 14 January 2005. His project involved the creation of Croma, a LISP -type programming language. His prize of a €7,500 cheque and
162-467: The Collison brothers became the world's youngest self-made billionaires, potentially worth at least $ 1.1 billion, after an investment in Stripe from CapitalG and General Catalyst Partners valued the company at $ 9.2 billion. By 2017, the brothers were notionally worth at least $ 3.2 billion each. In 2018, Stripe, under the direction of the Collison brothers, contributed $ 1 million to California YIMBY ,
180-490: The age of 20 and following the publication of the McCarthy Report , Collison outlined his ideas for the future of Ireland on popular talk-show Saturday Night with Miriam . According to Collison, he reads books and is interested in a broad range of subjects on history, technology, engineering, fiction, philosophy, and art. He publishes the list of books he read on his website . In November 2018, Collison published
198-406: The company's new Vancouver base. Collison attributes the success of his company to his win in the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. In 2010, Collison co-founded Stripe , which in 2011 received investment of $ 2 million including from PayPal co-founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel , and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital , Andreessen Horowitz , and SV Angel . In November 2016,
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#1732787121865216-434: The company, prompting a move to California after Silicon Valley 's Y Combinator showed interest, where they merged with two Oxford graduates, Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar, and the company became Auctomatic. On Good Friday of March 2008, Collison, aged nineteen, and his brother, aged seventeen, sold Auctomatic to Canadian company Live Current Media, becoming millionaires. In May 2008, he became director of engineering at
234-521: The guardian newspaper quoting "Krahenbuhl said: Last Night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents in the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza. Children Killed in their sleep, this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/world-disgrace-gaza-un-shelter-school-israel On 27 November 2014, Collison posted an image to his x account of
252-427: The insult and hurt caused" by it. He also tweeted "I am calling on them to come to Limerick where I will gladly set the record straight in respect of what our county and city has to offer as opposed to what your work of fiction depicts," and "Please let me know when suits to visit." Niall Collins tweeted that the article was a "disgraceful description of Limerick, home to so many fine and decent people". The article
270-538: The most progress and higher standards of living. On 29 June 2020, Collison criticised the Chinese government's treatment of Uighurs tweeting: "As a US business (and tech) community, I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government against its own people". On 30 July 2014, Collison posted an excerpt on his twitter account from
288-406: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Croma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Croma&oldid=870275172 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
306-794: Was born to microbiologist Lily and electronic engineer Denis Collison on 9 September 1988, and he and his brothers were brought up in the small village of Dromineer in County Tipperary . The eldest of three boys, he took his first computer course when he was eight years old, at the University of Limerick , and began learning computer programming at the age of ten. Collison was educated in Gaelscoil Aonach Urmhumhan, Nenagh , before attending Castletroy College in Castletroy , County Limerick. Collison entered
324-531: Was removed from the website on 9 April 2021. In April 2022, Collison married Swiss-American biochemist and Stanford University professor Silvana Konermann , with whom he co-founded the Arc Institute. Collison met Konermann during the 2004 EU Young Scientist competition . Collison lives in San Francisco , California. siopa#Irish Siopa is a genus of picture-winged flies in
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