# John Collison (slim)

> John Collison is co-founder and President of Stripe. TaxJar on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and President, Stripe.

John Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick in 2010 and is its president.

## What John builds

- [TaxJar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taxjar.md), graded C, 57.7/100, in Tax calculation & compliance. TaxJar is Stripe's US sales tax service for businesses that sell across states. Its REST API calculates tax for an order, looks up rates by address, records orders and refunds for reporting, and stores exempt customers. Co-founder and President, Stripe, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Mark Faggiano](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-faggiano/), CEO of TaxJar at its 2021 acquisition by Stripe
- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-collison-3/), Co-founder and CEO, Stripe

## Questions

### Who is John Collison?

John Collison co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick in 2010 and is its president.

### What does TaxJar (Stripe) make?

Anchor Terminal lists TaxJar from TaxJar (Stripe).

### How are John's tools graded?

TaxJar is graded C, 57.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.taxjar.com/about
- https://stripe.com/gb/newsroom/news/taxjar
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.

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-2/) (Tempo and Stripe), as far as the research can tell.

These 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.