Jed Mccaleb
Founder of Vast
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2021 - Current
Vast is building artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system. Hiring! please reach out.
Vast is a pioneer in space habitation technologies focused on expanding humanity across the solar system.
Founder
2020
We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization. Astera.org
Astera Institute is a non-profit that supports science and technology projects.
Co-founder
2014
Leads technical development of Stellar, a universal financial network supported by Stellar.org, a nonprofit that contributes to open-source software. We are hiring! I cofounded Stellar.org because I believe that gaps and outdated infrastructure in the financial system limit the economic potential of the world. As a nonprofit, we couple technology with digital financial literacy. My hope is that Stellar.org will enable full economic participation for all human beings.
Advisor
2015
MIRI is a nonprofit that exists to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact.
Founder
2011 - 2013
Ripple is a technology company that provides solutions for cross-border payments, crypto liquidity, and central bank digital currency.
Raised $293,800,000.00 from Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman, The K Fund and Azure Ventures Group.
Founder
2007 - 2009
Programmed and designed The Far Wilds, a turn-based strategy game that emphasizes clever plays. The Far Wilds received positive reviews from IGN for its “unique, interesting and addictive gameplay.” When I no longer had time to run the game, I handed it over to a group of dedicated fans who could continue to operate it for the community.
Founder, CTO
2000 - 2005
MetaMachine created eDonkey2000 and kdrive (an early Dropbox-like file storage system that allowed for secure transfer of files in a decentralized manner). The eDonkey Network was an early decentralized p2p file-sharing network. eDonkey pioneered multi-source downloads by introducing hashing to p2p file sharing, which enabled 1-to-many data sharing. eDonkey was the first implementation of a large-scale DHT.