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  "markdown": "Co-founder and President, Stripe.\n\nJohn 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.\n\n## What John builds\n\n- [Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mpp.md), graded A, 81.5/100, in 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 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jeff Weinstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-weinstein/), Product Lead, Agentic Commerce\n- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-collison-2/), Co-founder and CEO, Stripe\n- [Steve Kaliski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/steve-kaliski/), Engineering Lead, Agentic Commerce; Principal Software Engineer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is John Collison?\n\nJohn 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.\n\n### What does Tempo and Stripe make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are John's tools graded?\n\nMachine Payments Protocol (MPP) is graded A, 81.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwweinstein/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-kaliski-079a7710/\n- https://mpp.dev/\n- https://tempo.xyz/about/\n- https://tempo.xyz/blog/introducing-tempo/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collison\n\nNot the same person as [John Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-collison/) (OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe), [John Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-collison-3/) (TaxJar (Stripe)), as far as the research can tell.\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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