Chris Larsen

Chris Larsenis a business executive and angel investor who co-founded several Silicon Valley technology startups, including E-Loan, an online mortgage lender. He is known for being a vocal advocate of financial privacy and was a co-founder of the coalition Californians for Privacy Now. In 2006, Larsen co-founded Prosper Marketplace and served as CEO until 2012.

Later in 2012, heco-founded the company Ripple Labs, Inc., which developed Ripple, software that enables the instant and direct transfer of money between two parties. In 2018, Forbes estimated Larsen's worth at $59 billion, briefly putting him ahead of Mark Zuckerberg and into fifth place in their list of the world's richest people. Larsen and Ripple each donated US$1 million to five San Francisco food banks for COVID-19 relief efforts in 2020. Born in San Francisco, California in 1960, Larsen earned a B.S. in international business and accounting from San Francisco State University in 1984 and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1991.

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