Chris Larsen is Executive Chairman of Ripple’s board of directors and former CEO and co-founder of Ripple. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making […]
Chris Larsen is Executive Chairman of Ripple’s board of directors and former CEO and co-founder of Ripple. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a 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.
Ripple
San Francisco, CA U.S.
San Francisco State University, B.A.Sc. Accounting & Finance (1982-1984)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA (1989-1991)
Ripple - Executive Chairman
Prosper - CEO
E-LOAN - CEO
As global central banks work to implement their own CBDCs, Ripple through RippleNet and XRP is eyeing to connect different global CBDCs.
Larsen stresses on the fact that China-based miners currently control 65% of the BTC hashrate and can have absolute control over the protocol in the future. Larsen requested U.S. regulators to work closely with the American blockchain and cryptocurrency companies.
Chris Larsen says that the development of organizations like Ripple is a way for the U.S. to go for the crypto space.
Ripple has joined the Faster Payments Consortium (FPC) that offers its members the possibility to work together and to get access to the latest research and data.
Only four entrepreneurs who made their fortunes in crypto were included in the list of 2,095 billionaires revealed by Forbes this year. The richest man in crypto is Bitmain co-founder Micree Zhan, who appears at No. 690 on the list with a net worth of $3.3 billion.