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American software engineer and CEO of Bluesky From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lantian "Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer and the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[1][2][3]
Jay Graber | |
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Born | Lantian Graber 1991 (age 32–33) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS) |
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Years active | 2014–present |
Organization | Bluesky Social, PBC |
Known for | CEO of Bluesky Social |
Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[4][5] Her mother named her Lantian, meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom".[4]
Graber enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. During her senior year, she won a grant to co-found a student time bank program. Graber graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Society.[4]
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[4] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, soldering bitcoin mining equipment.[4]
In 2016, Graber began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[4][6][7] In 2019, she founded Happening, Inc., an event planning website.[4][6][7]
Graber was named as the first CEO of Bluesky in August 2021, two years after the project was first announced as a Twitter initiative.[2][6][7][8][9] Despite her name also meaning blue sky, the project Bluesky was not named after her.[4]
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