# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-larsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:16:24.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-larsen"
name: "Chris Larsen"
slug: "chris-larsen"
description: "Chris Larsen is an American business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups, including one based on peer to peer lending. In 1996, he co-founded the online mortgage lender E-Loan, and during his tenure as CEO E-Loan became the first company to freely provide consumers' FICO credit scores. By 2000, E-Loan's market value was estimated at $1 billion In 2005, Larsen left the company when it was sold to Banco Popular. In 2006, he co-founded Prosper Marketplace and was CEO until 2012. Later in 2012, he co-founded the company Ripple Labs, Inc., which developed Ripple, software that enables the instant and direct transfer of money between two parties."
tagline: "American programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Larsen_on_When_Shift_Happens_(2025).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.04
  momentum:             0.4108699684659619
  historical:           6.070766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chrislarsensf"
    handle:    "chrislarsensf"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/lmsjetman/"
    handle:    "lmsjetman"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ripplelabs.com/team/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen"
    title: "Chris Larsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "كريس لارسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "كريس لارسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3"
    title: "クリス・ラーセン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen"
    title: "Chris Larsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%9F"
    title: "כריס לארסן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump