💳 Stripe

In 2005, sixteen-year-old Patrick Collison (Patrick is the cofounder of Stripe) did what many high school nerds do and participated in the Young Scientist Of The Year competition. As a young teen, he leveraged it to build his app "Isaac" (his entry to the competition). Isaac is what we would call today a chatbot….in 2005, chatbots weren't a thing….... See more