Peter Renton, Founder of Lend Academy and Co-Founder of LendIt reflects on first interacting with Chris Larsen back in 2010; the co-founder and former CEO of Prosper is now trying to solve a massive multi trillion dollar challenge: enabling instant global payments. Source
Chris Larsen, Ripple’s co-founder and executive chairman is benefiting from Ripple’s (XRP) recent rise; CNBC reports that his net worth climbed to $59.9 billion yesterday, at least on paper; this puts him high on the Forbes 400 list, just head of Larry Ellison; Larsen owns 5.19 billion of the digital currency and has a 17% stake in the company; he was previously a founder of Prosper. Source
Back in 2010 in my first month at Lend Academy one of the first people I reached out to was...
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There was some big news out of Prosper earlier today. In a press release this afternoon, Prosper announced that chairman,...