# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jed-mccaleb
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:03.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jed-mccaleb"
name: "Jed McCaleb"
slug: "jed-mccaleb"
description: "Jed McCaleb is an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and ex-CEO of aerospace startup Vast and a co-founder and the CTO of Stellar. Prior to co-founding Stellar, McCaleb founded and served as the CTO of the company Ripple until 2013. McCaleb is also known for creating the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, and the peer-to-peer eDonkey and Overnet networks as well as the eDonkey2000 application."
tagline: "American tech entrepreneur and philanthropist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.41
  momentum:             8.775974950185027
  historical:           5.904122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 91
totalFollowers: 744
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JedMcCaleb"
    handle:    "JedMcCaleb"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jed.mccaleb"
    handle:    "jed.mccaleb"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-mccaleb-4052a4/"
    handle:    "jed-mccaleb-4052a4"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/jedmccaleb"
    handle:    "jedmccaleb"
    followers: 744
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8"
    title: "جد مک‌کالب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_McCaleb"
    title: "Jed McCaleb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_McCaleb"
    title: "Jed McCaleb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jed_McCaleb"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_McCaleb"
    title: "Jed McCaleb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%96"
    title: "ジェド・マケーレブ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28449997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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