Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and current CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. In 2020, he founded Fast Grants to fund COVID-19-related science with economist Tyler Cowen. In 2021, he co-founded Arc Institute, a nonprofit research organization, with bioscientists Silvana Konermann and Patrick Hsu.
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Date: 10 September 1988
LEAD: International 2-5, 28 A papal visit to Africa is not slight to Pretoria, the Vatican said. Pope John Paul II wants to visit South Africa, but cannot on a visit to five neighboring countries because of scheduling problems, the Vatican said. Page 3 Violence in central Nicaragua, in the provinces of Chontales and Boaco, continues despite the cease-fire between contra rebels and the Government.
Date: 09 September 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Certain that Iraq had used poison gas against Kurdish guerrillas, the United States condemned the action as ''abhorrent and unjustifiable,'' but an Iraqi Foreign Ministry official called the U.S. charge ''absolutely baseless.'' Page A1
Date: 09 September 1988
By Albert Scardino, Special To the New York Times
Albert Scardino
LEAD: Detroit's two daily newspapers won a promise from a Federal judge today that he would decide by next week whether to allow them to merge their business operations. A merger between The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News would put an end to an eight-year battle for dominance in the nation's fourth-largest market.
Date: 09 September 1988
By Craig R. Whitney, Special To the New York Times
Craig Whitney
LEAD: The postal strikes of the last week have paralyzed the Royal Mail, but modern technology and traditional British ingenuity have kept them from paralyzing the national economy or repressing the English epistolary urge.
Date: 10 September 1988
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
LEAD: The Soviet reader in the days of glasnost knows the frustration of Tantalus. The rich fruits of Moscow spring hang on the branches, many of them no longer forbidden but just out of reach.
Date: 09 September 1988
Reuters
LEAD: With a new campaign aimed at younger car buyers, the General Motors Corporation's Oldsmobile division predicted sales would increase 5 to 10 percent in the 1989 model year. G.M. executives also said they planned an aggressive advertising campaign for the model with the theme, ''It's not your father's Oldsmobile,'' aimed at lowering the average age of their buyers, currently about 50 years old.
Date: 09 September 1988
LEAD: * Boeing Co. Seattle, announced that Gulf Air, the multinational Middle East air carrier, had ordered four more 767-300 long-range jetliners.
Date: 10 September 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Volkswagen United States said that the suggested retail prices of its 1989 Jetta, Cabriolet and Vanwagon models, which it is now shipping to dealers, would rise 2.7 percent above the final prices of the 1988 models. The base Jetta is up $285, to $9,690, while the top-of-the-line version is up $440, to $14,770.