Jay Graber
Jay Graber | |
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 Graber giving a talk at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2018. | |
| Born | Lantian Graber 1991 (age 32–33) Tulsa, Oklahoma United States |
| Education | Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Society |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | CEO, software engineer |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Organization | Bluesky Social, PBC |
| Known for | CEO of Bluesky Social |
| Website | jaygraber |
Lantian "Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer and the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[1][2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[4][5] Her mother named her Lantian, meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom".[4]
Graber enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. During her senior year, she won a grant to co-found a student time bank program. Graber graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Society.[4]
Career[edit]
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[4] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, soldering bitcoin mining equipment.[4]
In 2016, Graber began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[4][6][7] In 2019, she founded Happening, Inc., an event planning website.[4][6][7]
Graber was named as the first CEO of Bluesky in August 2021, two years after the project was first announced as a Twitter initiative.[2][6][7][8][9] Despite her name also meaning blue sky, the project Bluesky was not named after her.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ del Castillo, Michael (September 11, 2022). "Jack Dorsey's Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter". Forbes. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ a b Dang, Sheila (August 16, 2021). "A Twitter-funded company trying to build a new kind of social media taps its first leader". CNBC. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ Heath, Alex (April 17, 2023). "Bluesky's CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter". The Verge. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h del Castillo, Michael (April 25, 2023). "Jack Dorsey-Backed Decentralized Twitter Rival Prepares To Launch With One Million Users". Forbes. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
- ^ Robison, Kylie (July 31, 2023). "Inside Twitter rival Bluesky's first major crisis, as investors pressured CEO Jay Graber to speak out about racist incident". Fortune. Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ a b c Campbell, Ian Carlos (August 16, 2021). "Twitter's decentralized social network project finally has a leader". The Verge. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ a b c Matney, Lucas (August 16, 2021). "Twitter taps crypto developer to lead 'bluesky' decentralized social network effort". TechCrunch. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ Belanger, Ashley (April 28, 2023). "Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk's continued debasing". Ars Technica. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ Klee, Miles (April 27, 2023). "Bluesky Becomes the Hottest Club Online as Twitter Users Fight for Invites". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
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