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TIL the BlueSky CEO’s mother named her Lantian meaning “Blue Sky” (in Mandarin)
"Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer who has served as the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform created in 2019 by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, since 2021. Early lifeedit Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of a Chinese mother who works as an acupuncturist and a Swiss father who teaches mathematics.[1][2] Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" (meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese) as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom".[1] She enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and later graduated with a BSc in Science, Technology, and Society.[1] During her senior year there, she won a grant to co-found a student time bank program.[1] Careeredit 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 together bitcoin mining equipment.[1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[1][3][4] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.[1][3][4] In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[5][6][7] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become Twitter's main rival following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[3][4][8][9] Referencesedit - ^ a b c d e f g h del Castillo, Michael (April 25, 2023).
Lantian" Jay" Graber(born 1991) is an American software engineer who has served as the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform created in 2019 by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, since 2021. Born1991 (age 32–33)OccupationSoftware engineerYears active2014–presentLantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of a Chinese mother who works as an acupuncturist and a Swiss father who teaches mathematics. Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" (meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese) as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom".
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