# Stephen Akridge

Co-Founder, Solana

Co-Founder at Solana Labs

**Location:** San Francisco, California
**Gender:** Male

## About

Stephen Akridge is the co-founder of Solana. Stephen spends all his time in the codebase. He has 10 years of critical GPU optimization expertise at Qualcomm and Intel. He led the GPU backend that constantly beat Nvidia. Stephen spends all his time in the codebase. He has 10 years of critical GPU optimization expertise at Qualcomm and Intel. He led the GPU backend that constantly beat Nvidia.

## Full profile

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