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<?php Response::setMetaDescription('LBRY is founded by a team passionate about connecting producers and consumers and breaking down broken models. Learn more about them.') ?>
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<main>
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<div class="content">
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<h1>About Us</h1>
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</div>
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<div class="hero hero-quote hero-img spacer2" style="background-image: url(/img/cover-team.jpg)">
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<div class="hero-content-wrapper">
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<div class="hero-content">
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<blockquote class="blockquote-large">
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<p>LBRY is so simple your Grandma can use it. I’m ready to see blockchain technology become useful for regular people.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<cite>Mike Vine <em>Technology Evangelist</em></cite>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="content photo-grid spacer2">
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<h2>The Team</h2>
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<div class="row-fluid">
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/jeremy-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of Jeremy Kauffman"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Jeremy Kauffman <a href="mailto:jeremy@lbry.io" class="link-primary"><span class="icon icon-envelope"></span></a></h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Founder, CEO</div>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime BitTorrent community enthusiast.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jeremy founded <a href="//usetopscore.com" class="link-primary">TopScore</a>, a startup that
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processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations.
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He also attended <a href="//rpi.edu" class="link-primary">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>, where he received degrees in physics and computer science.
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/jimmy-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of Jimmy Kiselak"/>
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</div>
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<h4>
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Jimmy Kiselak
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<a href="mailto:jimmy@lbry.io" class="link-primary"><span class="icon icon-envelope"></span></a>
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</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Founder, CTO</div>
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<p>
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Because graduating from RPI with degrees in physics and computer science is the hip thing to do, Jimmy did the same.
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After, he found himself mired in government bureaucracy, spending too much time to get too little done.
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</p>
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<p>
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Ready to work on a project he believed in, Jimmy quit his national security job to start LBRY.
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Jimmy created the LBRY protocol and the first LBRY application.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jimmy is a Bitcoin fanatic and has been since its early days. He has long been interested in the benefits of decentralization.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row-fluid">
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/mike-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of Mike Vine"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Mike Vine <a href="mailto:mike@lbry.io" class="link-primary"><span class="icon icon-envelope"></span></a></h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Founder, Evangelist</div>
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<p>
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With a humble BA in Philosophy from <a href="http://tulane.edu/" class="link-primary">Tulane University</a>, Mike has
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built a successful financial services marketing company, <a href="http://www.centinel.net/" class="link-primary">Centinel Consulting</a>.
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Centinel has helped clients grow from close to nothing to hundreds of thousands of visitors. He manages
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email marketing lists and social media accounts of the same size.
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</p>
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<p>
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Mike has been involved with the Bitcoin community since the early days. His friends have launched companies like
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<a class="link-primary" href="//lamassu.is">Lamassu BTM</a>,
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<a class="link-primary" href="//coinapult.com">Coinapult</a>,
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<a class="link-primary" href="//shapeshift.io">Shapeshift</a>.
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Now, he's ready to change the world by harnessing blockchain technology.
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Mike heads up LBRY’s marketing efforts and serves as an ambassador for our platform to media, investors, and the public.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/josh-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of Josh Finer"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Josh Finer <a href="mailto:josh@lbry.io" class="link-primary"><span class="icon icon-envelope"></span></a></h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Chief Growth Officer</div>
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<p>
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Josh's combination of an MBA, strong analytical skills, programming skills, advertising expertise, and a perceptive insight to
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financial markets lead him to frequently bear the only title that can summarize such diverse wizardry: problem solver.
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<p>
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Josh has founded innovative financial companies (later acquired), run millions of dollars in Adwords campaigns, and been an early
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actor in other crypto projects. Josh's contributions to LBRY will be as diverse as his background.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="row-fluid">
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/jack-robison-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of Jack Robison"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Jack Robison <a href="mailto:jack@lbry.io" class="link-primary"><span class="icon icon-envelope"></span></a></h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Core Developer</div>
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<p>
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Jack's path to developer with LBRY is fairly typical:
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<a href="http://www.masslive.com/localbuzz/index.ssf/2009/06/actionreaction_how_one_teens_c.html" class="link-primary">
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face sixty years in prison for innocent chemistry experiments</a>; lose interest in chemistry;
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZi4UZjiiI&t=10" class="link-primary">program insane electric guitars for Kiss</a>;
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decide to revolutionize the internet.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack was one of the first people to discover LBRY and took to it so fast he may understand more
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about it than anyone.
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<p>
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Jack has Asperger's Syndrome and is actively involved in the autism community. He was a regular on Wrong Planet's
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/theWrongPlanet" class="link-primary">Autism Talk TV</a>, has appeared on
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<em>National Public Radio</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, and presents around the country.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="span6">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/spooner-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of you!"/>
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</div>
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<h4>You</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Developer, Designer, Economist, Marketer, Investor, ???</div>
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<p>
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Do you think opening up information would facilitate human flourishing?
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Do you want to join a bright core of people with an obsession for upending broken systems?
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<a href="mailto:jeremy@lbry.io" class="link-primary">Say hello.</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<h2>Advisory Team</h2>
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<img src="/img/alex-tabarrok-644x450.jpg" alt="Alex Tabarrok"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Alex Tabarrok</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Economic Advisor</div>
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<p>Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the <a href="http://mercatus.org/" class="link-primary">Mercatus Center</a>
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and a professor of economics at <a href="//gmu.edu" class="link-primary">George Mason University</a>. He specializes in intellectual property reform, the effectiveness of markets, and the justice system.
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</p>
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<p>Tabarrok is the coauthor, with Mercatus colleague Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog <a class="link-primary" href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/"><em>Marginal Revolution</em></a>
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and cofounder of the online educational platform <a class="link-primary" href="http://mruniversity.com/">Marginal Revolution University</a>.
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He is the coauthor of
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<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Principles-Economics-Tyler-Cowen/dp/1429239972" class="link-primary">Modern Principles of Economics</a></em>,
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and author of the recent book
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<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Launching-The-Innovation-Renaissance-Market-ebook/dp/B006C1HX24" class="link-primary">Launching the Innovation Renaissance</em></a>.
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His articles have appeared in the<em> New York Times</em>, the<em> Washington Post</em>, the<em> Wall Street Journal</em>, and many
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other prestigious publications.
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</p>
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<p>Tabarrok received his PhD in economics from
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<a class="link-primary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University">George Mason University</a>.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="span6 spacer2">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/stephan-644x450.jpg" alt="Stephan Kinsella"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Stephan Kinsella</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Legal Advisor</div>
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<p>
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Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and has over twenty years’ experience in patent, intellectual property,
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and general commercial and corporate law. He is the founder and director of the <a href="http://c4sif.org/" class="link-primary">Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom</a>.
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Kinsella has published numerous articles and books on intellectual property law and legal topics including
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/International-Investment-Political-Dispute-Resolution/dp/0379215225" class="link-primary">
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<em>International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide</em>
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</a>
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and
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<a href="https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0" class="link-primary">
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<em>Against Intellectual Property</em>
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</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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He received an LL.M. in international business law from <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/" class="link-primary">King’s College London</a>, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at
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<a href="//lsu.edu" class="link-primary">Lousiana State University</a>,
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as well as BSEE and MSEE degrees. His websites are <a href="stephankinsella.com" class="link-primary">stephankinsella.com</a>
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and <a href="kinsellalaw.com" class="link-primary">kinsellalaw.com</a>
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</p>
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/huemer-644x450.jpg" alt="Michael Huemer"/>
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</div>
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<h4>Michael Huemer</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Ethical Advisor</div>
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<p>
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Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the <a href="//www.colorado.edu/" class="link-primary">University of Colorado</a>,
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where he has taught since 1998. He has published three single-author scholarly books
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(including <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Intuitionism-Michael-Huemer/dp/0230573746" class="link-primary">Ethical Intuitionism</a></em>),
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one edited anthology, and more than fifty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and metaphysics.
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</p>
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Huemer's articles have appeared in such journals as the <em>Philosophical Review</em>, <em>Mind</em>, the <em>Journal of Philosophy</em>, <em>Ethics</em>, and others.
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His materials are used as readings in classrooms nationwide. He received a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="span6">
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<div class="photo-container">
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<img src="/img/spooner-644x450.jpg" alt="photo of you!"/>
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</div>
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<h4>You</h4>
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<div class="meta spacer1">Technical or Media Advisor</div>
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<p>
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LBRY is seeking an extremely experienced technical advisor or advisor with a strong background in the publishing and media space.
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If you're that person or have a suggestion,
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<a href="mailto:jeremy@lbry.io?subject=Advisor" class="link-primary">let us know</a>.
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