Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb is an American programmer and entrepreneur. He is 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 bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and the peer-to-peer eDonkey and Overnet networks as well as the eDonkey2000 application.In January 2018, it was reported that McCalebs Ripple token ownership was worth $20 billion, which would put him at 40th place in Forbes  list of worlds richest people.

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