
Ripple Boss Speaks about Prolonged SEC Battle at WEF
The Ripple boss hinted some optimism, stating that there may finally be a resolution to its legal battle with the SEC.
CEO at Ripple.
Bradley Kent “Brad” Garlinghouse is CEO of financial technology company Ripple. He was formerly the CEO and Chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), the file sharing site. Prior to Hightail, he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL for two years, after his role as Senior Vice President at Yahoo! running its Communications business which included the Homepage, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! Messenger. While at Yahoo! he penned the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto calling for a shake up at the then fledgling Internet company.
Garlinghouse also had stints at Silver Lake Partners, Ventures, Home Network, SBC Communications and was CEO of Dialpad Communications. He is an active angel investor in over 40 companies including hardware company Pure Storage, AI startup Diffbot, and Indigo Agriculture. He is a board member at Animoto, and OutMatch, and previously held board positions at Ancestry.com, and Tonic Health.
Ripple
Feb 6th, 1971
American
California, United States
University of Kansas, BA in Economics
Harvard Business School, MBA
Ripple - CEO
The Ripple boss hinted some optimism, stating that there may finally be a resolution to its legal battle with the SEC.
Brad Garlinghouse believes it is a good thing that the US would not be starting from scratch in its pursuit of regulatory clarity.
The CEO of Ripple recently suggested that Wells Fargo did not receive the ‘FTX treatment’ despite exploiting its customers.
Ripple can perhaps acquire Ledger Holdings Inc from FTX at a lower price to help in its XRPL development plan.
The Ripple team believes the Hinman documents will reveal the SEC’s double-handedness in dealing with the case.