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Jed McCaleb is an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and 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.

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Jed McCaleb is an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and 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. As of March 2023, McCaleb is worth US$2.4 billion according to Forbes Billionaires List. Early life and education McCaleb was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and attended the University of California, Berkeley. He eventually dropped out and moved to New York City. Career

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“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.”
— The Piracy Arms Race, latimes.com (October 2, 2005)
“Internet infrastructure should not be owned by any small group of people.”
— New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth, Wired.com (August 6, 2014)
“Payments have not kept up with the internet. Money works fine in the developed world. The people who actually get screwed are the people who pay 10% remittances or those who can’t get a bank account.”
— Could Stellar be the answer to enable financial inclusion around the globe?, memeburn.com (May 4, 2015)

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