Yet, get some information about how affluent he is, and you sense his ponderousness.
"Individuals now ask this a great deal and I feel like they generally need some truly fascinating answer - and I have nothing for them," says the Irishman.
"Individuals ask 'how has your life changed?', and they need me to have taken up some expand new side interest, similar to Faberge egg gathering or yacht hustling."
Rather he says he loves going for a keep running in his extra time, depicting it as an "exceptionally commonsense, low support leisure activity".
John is the fellow benefactor of a US-based programming business that a great many people will never have known about, called Stripe.
He set up and now runs the San Francisco-based organization with his more established sibling Patrick, 29, who is simply the world's third most youthful made tycoon. (Evan Spiegel, 27, the prime supporter of web-based social networking firm Snapchat, remains between the two siblings as the second-most youthful).
Established in 2011, Stripe isn't generally known in light of the fact that it doesn't offer anything that purchasers can purchase. Rather its product frameworks empower organizations around the globe to all the more effectively acknowledge online installments and run their sites.
With more than 100,000 worldwide clients, a year ago it reported another round of subsidizing that esteemed the organization at $9.2bn (£7bn).
This implies John and Patrick are every worth in any event $1.1bn, as indicated by Forbes magazine, which is master at computing the abundance of the rich and celebrated.
Not terrible for two siblings who experienced childhood in country Republic of Ireland, and who both dropped out of college.
Sharp PC software engineers as young people, John and Patrick experienced childhood in a little town in County Tipperary, in the west of the nation.
In the wake of going to a state auxiliary school in the city of Limerick, their selection of colleges meant that their desire in life.
Not for them a school in Ireland or the UK, they rather both chose to learn at top US foundations.
In spite of no family associations in the US, Patrick effectively connected to think about maths at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, close Boston in 2007. After two years John was acknowledged adjacent, at the similarly very much regarded Harvard University.
John says: "It was clearly simpler for me since Patrick had officially done it, yet we'd both built up a touch of hunger for something new.
"I had considered the UK, however that wasn't sufficiently far away, it wasn't sufficiently meandering. Also, the two of us were studious, so setting off to a best school in the US was continually enticing."
In any case, even before John had begun at Harvard, he and his sibling had just turned out to be moguls on account of their first business wander, a product firm that empowered little firms and sole dealers to work together more effectively on the closeout site eBay.
At last called Auctomatic, it was sold in 2008 for $5m (£3.8m) a year after they had set up its first cycle.
The siblings at that point turned their regard for Stripe, and kept on chipping away at it together after John began at Harvard. They then both dropped out of college to dispatch Stripe in Silicon Valley, California.
John says: "We thought of Stripe the way many individuals think of comparative thoughts - we were in the market for something like Stripe [that we could use].
"You may ponder what is hard about beginning a [online] business. Making an item that individuals really need to purchase, and inspiring them to find out about it, all that we could deal with. Be that as it may, getting cash from individuals over the web was to a great degree troublesome.
"I said to Patrick 'how hard would it be able to be? Perhaps we should give it a try?'."
So they begin building up a product framework that enables firms of all sizes to all the more effectively gather installments, and run different parts of their sites, for example, securely putting away client information, and other security frameworks.
Notwithstanding various contenders, Stripe's client numbers rapidly developed, and it secured financing and support from such innovation division heavyweights as Tesla manager Elon Musk, and Paypal author Peter Thiel.
Its plan of action is moderately clear - it charges clients a sum for every exchange prepared utilizing its product. In the UK this is 1.4% of the estimation of the exchange in addition to 20p.
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While Stripe doesn't discharge points of interest of its yearly incomes, the association's $9.2bn valuation recommends it is a lucrative business. What's more, with regards to advance development potential, John is especially certain.
"Just 5% of customer spending internationally at present happens on the web, and we need to help expand that.
"We are ordered to the development of the web economy. For whatever length of time that the web economy keeps on developing, Stripe will keep on growing.
"I don't think about you, yet I feel that is an extremely safe thing to wager on."
Today Stripe has 750 workers, incorporating 500 in San Francisco, and 150 abroad, incorporating European workplaces in Dublin, London, Paris and Berlin.
Innovation columnist Martin Veitch contributing supervisor to tech site IDG Connect, says it isn't amazing that Stripe is accepting so much consideration, however he alerts that it remains a youthful business.
"Any organization that can possibly be an accepted standard in web business operations will produce practically faction like intrigue, and that is the thing that the siblings have done in on the web and versatile installments," he says.
"Be that as it may, this is a focused space… Stripe's valuation may make a few of us sob with envy, yet these stay early days."
On an everyday premise John, who has the title of president, says that he invests more energy managing outside issues, for example, deals arrangements and organizations, while Patrick concentrates most on inner issues, for example, designing.
In their extra time they share a loft in San Francisco that must be some unhitched male cushion.
Simply don't ask them what it resembles to be an extremely rich person.
"Generally it [the extremely rich person thing] is only a number cruncher work out," says John. "The valuation is predicated on us proceeding to execute and dispatch exceptionally convincing items in a profoundly aggressive space - so great signs, yet at the same time a considerable measure to do."
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