juan benet

Juan is the founder of Protocol Labs, the internet tech R&D lab that develops IPFS and Filecoin. He studied computer science at Stanford University and was interested in science and technology. Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and seamless, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. The IPFS Project has grown into a large open-source movement to re-decentralize the web, safeguard the data, and improve the applications. 

Before finding Protocol Labs in 2014, Benet served as the Co-Founder and CTO at Loki Studios, a seed-funded mobile game platform focused on developing the games of the new generation, where he designed, engineered, published, and maintained location-based multiplayer mobile games and was acquired by Yahoo Inc.