be anatoly yakovenko

1) born in ukraine, moved to the US to study computer science at university of illinois
2) spent 13 years at qualcomm as a senior engineer working on operating systems and compression algorithms
3) also worked at dropbox and mesosphere before going independent
4) noticed that blockchains had no reliable way to track time which was slowing everything down
5) wrote the solana whitepaper in 2017 introducing proof of history to solve exactly that
6) co-founded solana labs in 2018 with raj gokal
7) built the network with a small team, no massive VC rounds early on
8) solana can process 65,000+ transactions per second
9) survived a brutal FTX collapse that dragged solana's price down 95%
10) came back anyway solana is now a top 5 blockchain by market cap
11) one engineer's frustration with slow systems turned into a $70B+ ecosystem