Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb is a founder of Vast, a company focused on building artificial gravity space stations for humanity's expansion across the solar system. Jed is also a founder of Astera Institute, supporting high-leverage science and technology projects. Additionally, Jed is a co-founder of Stellar Development Foundation, leading the technical development of the Stellar financial network. Jed serves as an advisor for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, ensuring the positive impact of smarter-than-human intelligence. In the past, Jed founded companies like Ripple.com, Code Collective, and MetaMachine, known for projects like The Far Wilds game and eDonkey2000 file-sharing network.