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Brian Armstrong: The Stanford Engineer Who Built a Global Digital Asset Platform
Before Coinbase became the first digital asset company to list on a major US stock exchange, Brian Armstrong was a software engineer…
Inside Vitalik Buterin’s Technical Roadmap: Five Phases of Open-Source Network Development
A detailed look at the technical direction Ethereum founder has outlined for the platform — and what it means for the developers,…
Self-Made Tech Founders Who Built Their Fortunes From Open-Source Software
Before venture capital discovered open-source, a generation of engineers built tools that ran the internet for free — and a small number…
Vitalik Buterin: The 19-Year-Old Who Built One of the World’s Most Used Open-Source Platforms
From a gifted student in Toronto to the creator of a platform running thousands of open-source applications worldwide — the story of…
Dylan Field and Figma: A Profile of the Thiel Fellow Who Built a Design-Tool Standard
Dylan Field is the American technologist whose decision to leave Brown University on a Thiel Fellowship in 2012 — and to spend…
Evan You and the Building of Vue.js: A Profile of the Independent Open-Source Founder
Evan You is the Chinese-American software engineer whose three principal projects — the JavaScript framework Vue.js, the build tool Vite, and (most…
Patrick Collison and the Building of Stripe: A Profile of the Irish Founder
Patrick Collison is the Irish entrepreneur who, together with his younger brother John Collison, co-founded the payments-infrastructure company Stripe in 2010. The…
Fei-Fei Li: From Princeton Researcher to ImageNet, AI4ALL, and World Labs
Fei-Fei Li is the Chinese-American computer scientist whose work on the ImageNet benchmark dataset, developed at Stanford University in the late 2000s,…
Tobias Lütke and Shopify: A Profile of the German-Canadian Founder
Tobias “Tobi” Lütke is the German-Canadian software engineer and entrepreneur whose career trajectory — from a vocational programming apprenticeship in Koblenz to…
Jensen Huang and the Building of NVIDIA: A Profile of a Three-Decade Career
Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang is the Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and corporate executive whose three-decade tenure as co-founder and chief executive of NVIDIA Corporation…