Biography of Brad Garlinghouse - the beginning

Bradley Garlinghouse was born on February 6, 1971 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Since there is practically no information about this figure on the Internet, and he did not respond to our letters asking us to comment on his childhood, most of this article will be devoted to his professional activities.

Brad was educated at the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics. He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School, from which he graduated in 1997. It is noteworthy that another representative of Ripple Labs, Chris Larsen, was educated at this educational institution. From that moment began his professional career.


Career of Brad Garlinghouse

According to Brad's LinkedIn profile, his career began in 1999 at @Ventures, where he worked as a partner. A year later, in 2000, he took over as CEO of Dialpad Communications, a messaging platform.

In 2003, Garlinghouse joined Yahoo, where he was eventually promoted to vice president. Unlike his previous jobs, Brad worked at Yahoo for a little less than 6 years, but nothing lasts forever, so he changed this job as well. In February 2009, he became an advisor to Silver Lake Partners, an investment in new technologies. He worked for this company for 8 months.

From 2009 to 2011, Garlinghouse took over as president of applications and commerce at AOL. Since then, in addition to his main activities, he began to hold the position of a member of the board of several companies, in particular Animoto, Tonic Health, Ancestry.com. He is currently an active angel investor in over 40 companies including Pure Storage, AI startup, Diffbot and Indigo.


Brad Garlinghouse CEO Ripple Labs

Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of financial technology company Ripple Labs. At the moment, it is the third in terms of capitalization in the cryptocurrency market, but for several months it occupied the 2nd position.

Our today's hero does not strongly believe in decentralized cryptocurrencies, therefore he believes that over time all of them will be “lost”, and bitcoin will be among them. Due to the fact that Ripple Labs is funded by banks, Brad is a frequent guest at the World Economic Forum. During one of his speeches at WEF, he stated that his company absolutely does not compete with Ethereum (ETH), created by Vitalik Buterin.