Jed McCaleb

Founder

2021 - Current

Vast is building artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system. Hiring! please reach out.

Founder

2020

We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization. Astera.org

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 I cofounded Stellar.org because I believe that gaps and outdated infrastructure in the financial system limit the economic potential of the world.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

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.