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Chris Larsen
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Ripple
Born: 1960
Location: San Francisco, California
Nationality: United States
Residence: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Businesses: Ripple
Biography
Chris Larsen is a business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups.
Chris co-founded Ripple in 2012 to use blockchain technology and digital assets to enable financial institutions to send money across borders, instantly, reliably and for fractions of a penny.
Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-Loan, one of America’s first online mortgage lending service providers and now publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-Loan, he pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-Loan the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. As a first-generation college student, Chris graduated from San Francisco State University in 1984.
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Residence: Washington, D.C.
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Nationality: United States
Residence: San Francisco Bay Area
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Residence: Singapore
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