Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb
Born (1975-06-08) June 8, 1975 (age 49)
Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationSoftware developer
Known foreDonkey, Mt. Gox, Ripple, Stellar
TitleCTO of Stellar
Websitejedmccaleb.com

Jed McCaleb is an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and ex-CEO of aerospace startup Vast[1][2] and a co-founder and the CTO of Stellar.[3] 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.

As of March 2023, McCaleb is worth US$2.4 billion according to Forbes' Billionaires List.[4]

  1. ^ "Vast Space Becomes the Newest Member of "Space Beach"". BusinessWire. 2023-01-10. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  2. ^ "Team — VAST". www.vastspace.com. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  3. ^ Cheng, Evelyn (March 21, 2018). "An early bitcoin pioneer predicts how the blockchain will change banking". CNBC. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  4. ^ "Forbes". Retrieved March 7, 2023.