Mike Belshe

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Mike Belshe
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Belshe in 2025
Education California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ((BA)
Occupation(s)CEO, BitGo
Website www.belshe.com

Mike Belshe (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He's a co-founder and CEO of BitGo, Inc. [1] and a cofounder of Lookout Software in 2004. [2] He is the co-inventor of the SPDY protocol and one of the principal authors of the HTTP/2.0 specification.

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Early life and education

Belshe received his bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

He is also an inventor with over 10 technology patents.

He is a lifelong Bay Area resident and grew up just outside of Berkeley.

Career

Belshe started his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1993 as a software engineer focusing on systems and infrastructure. [3]

In 1995 he joined Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications Corp., where he worked on the enterprise-level use web server Netscape Enterprise Server. [4] where he worked closely with Ben Horowitz as one of the critical engineers. [5]

He later joined Supernews as VP of applications. [6] He joined Good Technology before co-founding Lookout Software with Eric Hahn. [7] Microsoft eventually acquired Lookout and it became a key feature of Outlook to quickly find information in email inboxes and file folders. [8]

Joining in 2006, he was one the early hires on the Google Chrome team, [9] and was part of the Google Chrome Comic. [10] As part of the Chrome team he worked on protocol research, [11] and later co-authored the SPDY protocol. [12] He submitted SPDY to the IETF in 2011, and was an author of HTTP/2. [11]

As part of the IETF standardization effort, Belshe argued for encryption by default within the protocol. [13] [14] The encrypted-by-default approach was later adopted by all major browsers.

Mike went on to co-found the industry-leading cryptocurrency company, BitGo, in 2013. He was quickly named CEO.

In March 2025, BitGo was appointed as the custodian for USD1, a stable coin launched by World Liberty Financial. [15] [16]

Politics

Mike has advocated for GOP candidates and staunchly supports clear regulation within the Bitcoin and crypto industry. He firmly believes in allowing capitalism to thrive in emerging industries. [17]

In the leadup to the 2024 Presidential election, he hosted JD Vance for a fundraiser in Palo Alto. [18] [19]

References

  1. ↑ "Mike Belshe, Bitgo Inc: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  2. ↑ Evers, Joris. July 16, 2004. "Microsoft Scoops Up Search Company". PCWorld.
  3. ↑ Belshe, Mike (December 2, 2015). "BitGo's Mike Belshe on 'Doing What Matters'". Bitcoin Magazine. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  4. ↑ O’Reilly Velocity Conference. June 16, 2011. "Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ". O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived September 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Ross, Stephen (July 29, 2024). "Who is Mike Belshe, the cryptocurrency executive hosting J.D. Vance fundraiser?". The Mercury News. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Who is the CEO of BitGo? Mike Belshe's Bio". Clay. September 13, 2024. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ Belshe, Mike. August 4, 2015. "About [ permanent dead link ]". Mike's Lookout.
  8. ↑ "BitGo's Mike Belshe on Doing What Matters". Bitcoin Magazine. December 1, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2023. "Closing Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens". NBC News. August 29, 2004. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
  9. ↑ Chan, Min Li. December 3, 2009. "Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?". Chromium Blog.
  10. ↑ Google, Inc.; McCloud, Scott. September 1, 2008. "Google Chrome Comic". Google, Inc.
  11. 1 2 Belshe, M.; Peon, R.; Thomson, M.; Melnikov, A.. 2015–5. "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)". Internet Engineering Task Force.
  12. ↑ O’Reilly Velocity Conference. June 16, 2011. "Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ". O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived September 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine .
  13. ↑ "Next version of the web will have resistance to surveillance at its core | Naked Security". August 24, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  14. ↑ "SPDY and What to Consider for HTTP/2.0". February 17, 2013.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ↑ Liedtka, Dave; Nicolle, Emily. "Trump's crypto project to offer dollar-tracking stablecoin". techxplore.com. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  16. ↑ Schmitt, Will (March 25, 2025). "Crypto group backed by Donald Trump to launch stablecoin". Financial Times. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Who is Mike Belshe, the cryptocurrency executive hosting JD Vance fundraiser in Palo Alto?". Silicon Valley. July 29, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
  18. ↑ Margulis, Arden (July 30, 2024). "Vice presidential nominee JD Vance visits East Palo Alto for fundraiser". The Almanac. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
  19. ↑ Favro, Marianne; Trujillo, Damian; McSweeney • •, Terry (July 28, 2024). "JD Vance visits Silicon Valley elite for fundraiser". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
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