Founder of a listed tool
John Collison
Co-founder and President, Stripe, named behind the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) listing on Anchor Terminal.
What John builds
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) A · Pay-per-call protocols
A method-agnostic 'Payment' HTTP authentication scheme from Tempo and Stripe, launched on 2026-03-18.
Co-founder and President, Stripe, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Jeff Weinstein Product Lead, Agentic Commerce
- Patrick Collison Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
- Steve Kaliski Engineering Lead, Agentic Commerce; Principal Software Engineer
Questions
Who is John Collison?
John Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick in 2010 and is its president. Before Stripe the brothers started Shuppa, which merged with Auctomatic, a Y Combinator-funded maker of eBay tools that sold for $5 million in March 2008.
What does Tempo and Stripe make?
Anchor Terminal lists Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) from Tempo and Stripe. A method-agnostic 'Payment' HTTP authentication scheme from Tempo and Stripe, launched on 2026-03-18.
How are John's tools graded?
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) is graded A, 81.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwweinstein/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-kaliski-079a7710/
- https://mpp.dev/
- https://tempo.xyz/about/
- https://tempo.xyz/blog/introducing-tempo/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collison
Not the same person as John Collison (OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe), John Collison (TaxJar (Stripe)), as far as the research can tell, since the listings name them at different companies with different or no profiles.
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