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Read on for Startup Grind's original Stripe founding story, with your founders and protagonists, Patrick and John Collison, and check out our interviews with Patrick Collison over three years of building his company Stripe.
Aug 3, 2017 · The Collison brothers were born in Limerick and moved around as kids before settling in Dromineer, a village in Co Tipperary. Their parents had scientific backgrounds - father Denis in...
May 26, 2022 · The Collisons have come a long way from the precocious boy wonders who, a dozen years ago, wowed Silicon Valley with just nine lines of code—which was all developers needed to copy and paste...
Oct 4, 2022 · Billions of years ago, a version of our Earth that looks very different than the one we live on today was hit by an object about the size of Mars, called Theia – and out of that collision the Moon was formed.
The early giant collision destroyed the rogue body, likely vaporized the upper layers of Earth's mantle, and ejected large amounts of debris into Earth orbit. Our Moon formed from this debris. Image Credit: Joe Tucciarone
Jan 28, 2016 · The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report.
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Nov 16, 2023 · How did the planets and moons in our solar system form? How do we know they involve collisions called ‘giant impacts’? Read on to find out more about how planets form through collisions and how scientists study this complex topic.