Frequently Asked Questions
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The Team
-LBRY is made possible by more people than we could ever list here. The founding team is listed below.
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Jeremy Kauffman
- +- Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. + {{page.team.jeremy.parag1}}
- Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime BitTorrent community enthusiast. + {{page.team.jeremy.parag2}}
- Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that - processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. - He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science. + {{page.team.jeremy.parag3}}
Michael Zargham
- +- Michael has spent years managing, designing, and overseeing a data science team and framework used to make multi-million dollar - purchasing decisions for a large media company. He brings knowledge of the media distribution business, software development - expertise, business development experience, technical skill and a network of corporate contacts. + {{page.team.zargham.parag1}}
- Michael’s ability to rapidly adapt new skill sets makes him a technical and business pocketknife of our startup team. He has a - PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on distributed systems. + {{page.team.zargham.parag2}}
Josh Finer
- +- Josh's combination of an MBA, strong analytical skills, programming skills, advertising expertise, and a perceptive insight to - financial markets lead him to frequently bear the only title that can summarize such diverse wizardry: problem solver. + {{page.team.josh.parag1}}
- Josh has founded innovative financial companies (later acquired), run millions of dollars in Adwords campaigns, and been an early - actor in other crypto projects. Josh's contributions to LBRY will be as diverse as his background. + {{page.team.josh.parag2}}
- Jimmy is the second member of team LBRY to graduate from Rensselaer with degrees in computer science and physics. - After, he found himself mired in government bureaucracy, spending too much time to get too little done. + {{page.team.jimmy.parag1}}
- Ready to work on a project he believed in, Jimmy left a national security programming job to start LBRY. - Jimmy created the LBRY protocol and the first LBRY application. + {{page.team.jimmy.parag2}}
- Jimmy is a Bitcoin fanatic and has been since its early days. He has long been interested in the benefits of decentralization. + {{page.team.jimmy.parag3}}
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- +- With a humble BA in Philosophy from Tulane University, Mike has - built a successful financial services marketing company, Centinel Consulting. - Centinel has helped clients grow from close to nothing to hundreds of thousands of visitors. He manages - email marketing lists and social media accounts of the same size. + {{page.team.mike.parag1}}
- Mike has been involved with the Bitcoin community since the early days. His friends have launched companies like - Lamassu BTM, - Coinapult, - Shapeshift. - Now, he's ready to change the world by harnessing blockchain technology. - Mike heads up LBRY’s marketing efforts and serves as an ambassador for our platform to media, investors, and the public. + {{page.team.mike.parag2}}
Alex Grin
- +- One of Alex's job titles is Wizard, so named because he can seemingly understand and utilize - new technologies faster than they can be created. + {{page.team.grin.parag1}}
- Alex designs and manages scalable infrastructure solutions for SaaS firms, and is - leveraging that experience to ensure LBRY's architecture is rock-solid. + {{page.team.grin.parag2}}
- Alex is the 3rd dual-degree graduate from RPI on this team, receiving degrees in - Computer Science and Psychology. He is also an alumni of Stuyvesant High School. + {{page.team.grin.parag3}}
Jack Robison
- +- Jack's path to developer with LBRY is fairly typical: - - face sixty years in prison for innocent chemistry experiments; lose interest in chemistry; - program insane electric guitars for Kiss; - decide to revolutionize the internet. + {{page.team.jack.parag1}}
- Jack was one of the first people to discover LBRY and took to it so fast he may understand more - about it than anyone. + {{page.team.jack.parag2}}
- Jack has Asperger's Syndrome and is actively involved in the autism community. He was a regular on Wrong Planet's - Autism Talk TV, has appeared on - National Public Radio, the New York Times, and presents around the country. + {{page.team.jack.parag3}}

You
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+- Do you think opening up information would facilitate human flourishing? - Do you want to join a bright core of people with an obsession for upending broken systems? - Say hello. + {{page.team.you.parag1}}