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Jed McCaleb

American tech entrepreneur and philanthropist · United States · Founders · Born 1975 · age 51

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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.

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2015“Payments have not kept up with the internet. Money works fine in the developed world.”In their words4 May 2015Could Stellar be the answer to enable financial inclusion around the globe?, memeburn.com (May 4, 2015)

2014“Internet infrastructure should not be owned by any small group of people.”In their words6 August 2014New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth, Wired.com (August 6, 2014)

2005“All the filtered networks in the world won't address the problem of copyright violation if no one is using them and everyone just migrates to the non-filtered networks.”In their words2 October 2005The Piracy Arms Race, latimes.com (October 2, 2005)

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  1. Payments have not kept up with the internet. Money works fine in the developed world.

    May 4, 2015, Could Stellar be the answer to enable financial inclusion around the globe?, memeburn.com (May 4, 2015), Own words

  2. Internet infrastructure should not be owned by any small group of people.

    Aug 6, 2014, New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth, Wired.com (August 6, 2014), Own words

  3. All the filtered networks in the world won't address the problem of copyright violation if no one is using them and everyone just migrates to the non-filtered networks.

    Oct 2, 2005, The Piracy Arms Race, latimes.com (October 2, 2005), Own words

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Founders
Type
Founder
Status
living
Dates
Born 1975 · age 51

Founders from the United States 6

Cornelius Vanderbilt59.7Bill Ackman59.6John Brown60.0Larry Flynt59.4Sam Bankman-Fried60.0Alice Walton59.3

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