The Founders

Founder of Moltbot

Co-founder of Ethereum blockchain platform, creator of smart contracts

CEO of OpenAI, former Y Combinator president

Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of Polkadot and Kusama, creator of Solidity programming language

CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2024, AI researcher

CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI

Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, co-inventor of convolutional neural networks

Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US

Founder and former CEO of Binance, world's largest cryptocurrency exchange

Co-founder and President of OpenAI

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc, former Chief Scientist at OpenAI

Founding member of OpenAI, former Director of AI at Tesla, AI educator

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, former VP of Research at OpenAI

President and co-founder of Anthropic

Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of Cardano and IOHK

Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of ConsenSys

Founder of Uniswap, leading decentralized exchange

Founder of Aave, leading DeFi lending protocol

Co-founder of Terraform Labs (Terra/Luna)

Co-founder and former CEO of Kraken cryptocurrency exchange

Co-founder and former CEO of BitMEX

Co-founder of Coinbase and Paradigm venture capital

Former CTO of Coinbase, angel investor, entrepreneur

Creator of Yearn Finance and multiple DeFi protocols

Founder of Compound Finance, DeFi lending protocol

Co-founder of Solana blockchain platform

Co-founder of Solana

Co-founder of Chainlink, leading oracle network

Co-founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, creators of Sui blockchain

Founder of FTX and Alameda Research (defunct)

Co-founder of Polygon (Matic Network)

Co-founder of Polygon, core developer

Founder and former CEO of Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion

Co-founder of Character.AI, co-inventor of Transformer architecture

Co-founder of Character.AI

Founder and CEO of Scale AI, data labeling and AI infrastructure

Co-founder of Covariant, Professor at UC Berkeley, robotics AI expert

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere, co-author of Transformer paper

Co-founder of Cohere

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face

Co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face

Co-founder of Runway ML, generative AI video tools

Co-founder and CEO of Runway ML

Former CEO of GitHub, AI investor and advisor

Founder and CEO of LangChain, LLM application framework

Founder and CEO of LlamaIndex, data framework for LLMs

Co-founder of World Labs, Professor at Stanford, AI pioneer

Co-founder of Twitch, founder of Fractal (Web3 gaming)

Co-founder of Reddit, Web3 investor via Seven Seven Six

CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X.AI (Grok), pioneering AI and autonomous driving

Godfather of AI, Turing Award winner, pioneer of deep learning and neural networks

Turing Award winner, deep learning pioneer, founder of Mila AI institute

Co-founder of Google Brain, founder of DeepLearning.AI and Coursera, AI educator

Inventor of GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), former Apple and Google researcher

Pioneer of LSTM networks, father of modern AI, director of Swiss AI Lab

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, authored Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008

Creator of Swift and LLVM, co-founder of Modular AI (Mojo language)

AI researcher at MIT, popular AI podcast host interviewing tech leaders

Lead researcher at OpenAI, key contributor to GPT models and DALL-E

Co-founder of OpenAI, robotics and reinforcement learning researcher

Co-founder of OpenAI, reinforcement learning expert, now at Anthropic

Founder and CEO of Midjourney, leading AI image generation platform

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, AI-powered search engine

Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity AI

Co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI

Former CTO of OpenAI, led development of ChatGPT and GPT-4

CEO of Google and Alphabet, overseeing Google AI and DeepMind

CEO of Microsoft, leading Microsoft's AI partnership with OpenAI

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, powering AI revolution with GPU computing

Co-founder of Twitter, CEO of Block (Square), Bitcoin advocate and Web3 builder

CEO of MicroStrategy, prominent Bitcoin advocate and institutional investor

Founder and CEO of ARK Invest, major investor in crypto and AI companies

Founder of Digital Currency Group, Grayscale, and Genesis Trading

Co-founder of Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, early Bitcoin investor

Co-founder of Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, early Bitcoin investor

CEO of Blockstream, inventor of Hashcash (Bitcoin's proof-of-work precursor)

Co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, Bitcoin Lightning Network developer

Co-founder and CIO of BlockTower Capital, crypto hedge fund

Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, crypto investor and advocate

Inventor of smart contracts and Bit Gold, Bitcoin pioneer and cryptographer

First Bitcoin transaction recipient, cryptographic pioneer, PGP developer

Founder of Zcash, privacy-focused cryptocurrency pioneer

Former lead maintainer of Monero, privacy cryptocurrency advocate

Creator of Litecoin, former Coinbase engineering director

Co-founder of Stellar and Ripple, creator of Mt. Gox exchange

CEO of Ripple Labs, leader in enterprise blockchain solutions

Creator of BitShares, Steemit, and EOS, DPoS consensus pioneer

Creator of JavaScript, co-founder of Mozilla, founder of Brave browser and BAT

Founder of AngelList, crypto investor, philosopher and thought leader

General Partner at a16z crypto, author of 'Read Write Own'

General Partner at a16z crypto, early crypto investor

Founder of Haun Ventures, former a16z partner, crypto-focused VC

Founder of Polychain Capital, first employee at Coinbase

Co-founder of Tezos, self-amending blockchain protocol

Co-founder of Tezos, blockchain governance pioneer

Founder of Arweave, permanent decentralized data storage protocol

Founder of Avalanche, Cornell professor, distributed systems expert

Founder of Aave and Lens Protocol, DeFi and Web3 social pioneer

Founder and CEO of Messari, crypto research and data platform

Founder and CEO of Proof of Failure ▪︎ DevDisplay