Who were the people in Ethereum’s launch day photo? And where did they go?
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This photo was taken by developer Lefteris Karapetsas 9 years ago during Ethereum’s launch day. He went on to found Rotki, a portfolio tracker.
Starting from Vitalik and going clockwise.
Most of these descriptions are from Lefteris’s Twitter post, and I added some notes of my own:
Vitalik – Just some guy. Currently an Ethereum Researcher. Gustav Simonsson – Worked on Ethereum a bit and then went on to Dfinity (ICP) Christian Reitwiessner – Creator of Solidity. Lead dev of the C++ team for EF Liana Husikyan – Solidity and main dev of Remix Christoph Jentsch – Ethereum testing suite. Founder of slockit. Creator of the DAO. Now CEO at Corpus Ventures and Tokenize Gavin Wood – Ethereum co-founder, and co-creator of Solidity. Founder of Polkadot. Author of the Ethereum Yellow Paper. Vlad Gluchowski – Worked in Whisper. Kelley Becker – Was on the project for a very brief time. Vlad Zamfir – Ethereum researcher. Lead architect for Ethereum’s Casper consensus protocol. Felix Lange – Go Ethereum dev. Frithjof Weinert – Was briefly CFO for at EF. Fabian Vogelsteller – Ethereum developer mainly focused on web3.js and mist. Now Founder/CEO of LUKSO. Aeron Buchanan – Ethereum developer/research. Later went on to work with Gavin to found Parity. Lefteris Karapetsas Worked on Solidity compiler and its C++ client at the time. Ethereum developer. Jutta Steiner – Ethereum developer. Later went on to work on Parity with Gavin. Yann Levreau – Worked on Remix and is still part of the same team.
It’s interesting that several of these went onto work on Polkadot and Parity. Gavin certainly had a lot of early influence.
Other notes:
Solidity is the main smart contract developer language for Ethereum VM Remix is a very popular tool for quickly compiling and deploying EVM smart contracts
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