$BNB The main founders of the Solana blockchain are Anatoly Yakovenko, Greg Fitzgerald, and Stephen Akridge.

They all worked at Qualcomm. Among them, Anatoly Yakovenko is the mastermind behind the first white paper, having a very hardcore engineering background, worked at Qualcomm for 13 years, and also led distributed system development at Mesosphere, as well as led compression system development at Dropbox.