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Ripple was first started in 2004 by Ryan Fugger, who developed the first version of Ripple, called RipplePay. n 2012, Fugger handed it to Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen, where they co-founded OpenCoin. In 2013, OpenCoin then rebranded to Ripple Labs Incorporated. In 2016, Ripple Labs rebranded to Ripple. Chris is currently the Executive Chairman of Ripple.
Jed McCaleb was previously the founder of Mt. Gox, the first Bitcoin exchange. He had a falling out with the Ripple team and forked the Ripple codebase to start Stellar. He is currently the CTO of Stellar. Brad Garlinghouse is currently the CEO of Ripple.
