Lets start with a San Francisco company that got a round of new funding which raised its valuation to 3. 5 billion. Not bad for a 24yearold kid from ireland. Cofounder at stripe he took a pause from harvard to concentrate on the company, an interesting bit of trivia. Johns certificate leaving score, which is like the s. A. T. Score was the highest in the country. I think i got that right. Lets introduce him from Financial Times John Schwartz from usa today. Lets start with the leaving certificate. Its like the s. A. T. . Yes. Highest in ireland in all of irish history . Im not sure. If i were close, i would have checked. Was it a perfect score . Is that possible . Yeah you can get perfect score. And did you get it . Yes. That would be the highest ever. Anyway it was so long ago. Yes it was, what three years ago . We started stripe 4 1 2 years ago now and so you know we it was in 2009 and weve been in the bay area since 2010. Okay. So lets start there are all kinds of things i want to t