Jay Graber | |
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 Graber in August 2024 | |
| Born | Lantian Graber 1991 (age 32–33) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS) |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Years active | 2014–present |
Lantian "Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer who has served since 2021 as the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform created in 2019 by Jack Dorsey, then CEO of Twitter, Inc.
Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a mother of Chinese descent, an acupuncturist by trade, and a mathematics teacher father of Swiss descent. [1] [2] Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter "Lantian" (蓝天), meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". [1] The similarity between Graber's given name and Bluesky is purely coincidental; Jack Dorsey had chosen the name "Bluesky" for the research initiative before Graber became involved with the project. [3]
Graber enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and later graduated with a BSc in Science, Technology, and Society. [1] During her senior year she won a grant to co-found a student time bank program. [1]
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. [1] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. [1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency. [1] [4] [5] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc. [1] [4] [5]
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company. [6] [7] [8] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become a competitor to Twitter following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. [4] [5] [9] [10]
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