Irish tech billionaire Patrick Collison married his childhood sweetheart a few years ago and their love story is one for the ages.
The Stripe co-founder and CEO, 36, met his match in Swiss scientist Silvana Konermann at a Young Scientist competition when they were just teenagers and the pair dated for many years before saying ‘I Do’.
Silvana supported her Irish boyfriend as he made his first million, dropped out of university, and went on to start up one of the most successful fintech companies in the world – but what does she do for work herself?
