# John Collison

> John Collison is co-founder and President of Stripe. Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and President, Stripe.

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 John builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Jeff Weinstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-weinstein/), Product Lead, Agentic Commerce
- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-collison-2/), Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
- [Steve Kaliski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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

- 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](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.

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