Founder of a listed tool
John Collison
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What John builds
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) C · Agent checkout protocols
Open checkout spec from OpenAI and Stripe (2025-09-29).
Co-founder, Stripe, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Stripe Identity A · Identity & business verification
Stripe Identity verifies government-issued photo IDs from more than 120 countries, matches them to selfies and validates US Social Security numbers. Sessions are created and read through the Stripe API, and the end user completes the check in Stripe's flow.
Co-founder, Stripe, LLC, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Stripe API + MCP A · Payment & monetisation platforms
Card, stablecoin and billing APIs with a hosted MCP server (mcp.stripe.com, 15 tools including generic stripe_api_read and stripe_api_write).
Co-founder, Stripe, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Andrej Karpathy Co-founder, OpenAI
- Durk Kingma Co-founder, OpenAI
- Elon Musk Co-founder, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Ilya Sutskever Co-founder, OpenAI
- John Schulman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Pamela Vagata Co-founder, OpenAI
- Patrick Collison Co-founder, Stripe
- Sam Altman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Trevor Blackwell Co-founder, OpenAI
- Vicki Cheung Co-founder, OpenAI
- Wojciech Zaremba Co-founder, OpenAI
Questions
Who is John Collison?
John Collison is co-founder and president of Stripe, which he started with Patrick Collison in 2010 with backing from Y Combinator. The two had earlier built Auctomatic, a Y Combinator-funded maker of tools for eBay sellers that was acquired in 2008.
What does OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe make?
Anchor Terminal lists Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), Stripe Identity and Stripe API + MCP from OpenAI and Stripe, Stripe, LLC, Stripe. Open checkout spec from OpenAI and Stripe (2025-09-29).
How are John's tools graded?
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is graded C, 61.3 out of 100; Stripe Identity is graded A, 78.7 out of 100; Stripe API + MCP is graded A, 82.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (6)
- https://www.agenticcommerce.dev
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol/main/MAINTAINERS.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol/main/README.md
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
- https://stripe.com/gb
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