Who Are the Founders of #SOLANA✅ ?

Anatoly Yakovenko is the most important person behind Solana. His professional career began at Qualcomm, where he quickly grew professionally and became a senior engineering manager in 2015. Later, his professional path changed, and Yakovenko took on a new position as a software engineer at Dropbox.

In 2017, Yakovenko began working on a project that later materialized into Solana. He teamed up with his Qualcomm colleague Greg Fitzgerald, and they founded a project called Solana Labs. Attracting several other former Qualcomm colleagues in the process, the Solana protocol and token $SOL were released to the public in 2020.