The boss of IT spent 500 million US dollars to give his girlfriend a 150-person research institute to help him realize the freedom of scientific research.

Advanced romance from a billionaire: to love her is to help her realize her freedom of scientific research.

Payment giant, there are Alipay, WeChat Pay, outside there is Stripe.

The protagonist who wants to share today is the co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison of Stripe.

The 33-year-old Irish billionaire recently went viral, mainly because he is married.

He married his childhood lover, former competitor, assistant professor at Stanford University and Swiss scientist Silvana Konermann.

High achiever's encounter at the peak of the scientist competition.

Quite different from the plot of "the overbearing President falls in love with me", which spends a lot of money buying luxury houses and giving luxury cars, Patrick performs a true plot of "Scientific Research overlord novel shines into reality". "he donated 500 million US dollars to his fiancee so that she does not have to be busy applying for funding and recruits 150scientists to set up a research center to serve as the director of the center, properly helping Silvana achieve academic freedom."

Even not long ago, Patrick tweeted that the first 50 scientists were about to move in and start working.

This move, not only let onlookers eat enough "dog food", but also known by the industry as the "ceiling" of researchers.

Looking back on the acquaintance of two people, it is also a chance encounter between high achiever.

Back in 2005, 17-year-old Patrick and 17-year-old Silvana stood on the opposite side of the competition at the 17th EU Young scientists Competition held in Moscow.

At that time, Silvana, a Swiss athlete, brought a medical-related project with the theme of "preventing urinary tract infection caused by catheters".

The project was inspired by the real experience around him, and once when Silvana's grandmother went to the hospital with a urinary tract infection, Silvana was determined to prevent it from happening again.

Postoperative urinary tract infections are caused by the use of catheters, but standard treatment (oral antibiotics) is usually ineffective because a film is formed on the surface of the catheter to protect bacteria.

Silvana's solution is to use high-tech polymers to inject antibiotics into the catheter itself, which is also better for patients.

On the other hand, Irish player Patrick brought the "Croma: a new network programming language" computer project.

Croma is a new programming language based on Lisp, which aims to simplify Web programming.

When faced with complex program code on the network, Patrick studied the Croma language using an integrated Web server, whose programs are much shorter than those written in other languages, which makes them cheaper to develop.

In the 79-event competition, Silvana and Patrick matched each other and came to the end.

In the end, however, Silvana's project beat Patrick, representing Switzerland to win the first place in the competition, while Patrick took second place.

In this way, the two do not fight do not know each other, this competition has also become the starting point of their fate.

Then, the two men returned home and opened up a new battlefield in their respective fields.

Shine in their respective fields.

According to the 2022 Forbes Global Billionaires list, the 33-year-old Patrick ranked 214, with a fortune of $9.5 billion.

Along the way, Patrick's personal growth experience is often amazing and admirable.

Patrick's mother is a microbiologist Lily and her father is an engineer Denis Collison. Patrick, who has a strong interest in computers from an early age, took his first computer course as early as eight and began to learn computer programming at the age of 10.

Referring to the EU Young scientists Competition that Silvana met above, it is worth mentioning that Patrick participated in two annual school student science competitions in Ireland, the BT Young scientists Exhibition, in which winners can participate in famous international events, such as the EU Young scientists Competition.

In 2004, Patrick attended the 40th Young scientists and Technology Exhibition with his artificial intelligence project Isaac, and finally won the personal runner-up.

The following year, he entered the competition again with the Croma programming language and won the first prize on January 14, 2005.

Soon after, he used the project to participate in the EU Young scientists Competition, which was followed by the above.

Later, he was admitted to MIT.

But like many foreign entrepreneurs, Patrick did not finish his college courses. He chose to drop out of MIT in 2009, and his brother John Collison chose to drop out of Harvard to start a business together.

Earlier in 2007, Patrick, 19, and his brother John, 17, founded a software company called Shuppa (meaning "store") in Limerick, Ireland.

However, under the circumstances, suffering from the lack of financial support, they chose to move the company to Silicon Valley, where Y Combinator saw California, where they merged with the program of two Oxford graduates to form Auctomatic.

The following year, Patrick and his brother sold Auctomatic, their software company, Auctomatic, to a Canadian company for more than 3 million euros.

As a result, they not only became famous overnight, but also became millionaires instantly.