Jay Graber

Jay Graber is the kind of tech-world enigma Silicon Valley pretends not to worship—an ex-crypto coder turned CEO of Bluesky, the microblogging experiment that started as Twitter’s pet project and now exists as its quasi-rebellious stepchild. Raised by a Chinese acupuncturist mother and a Swiss mathematician father, she was literally named for the open sky—an irony that must not be lost on Jack Dorsey, who christened Bluesky before she even arrived. Her résumé reads like a Silicon Valley fever dream: Penn grad, crypto tinkerer, part-time bitcoin miner in a Washington factory (because, why not?), and event-planning startup founder before landing the top job at a Twitter alternative. With a net worth floating around $5 million, she’s hardly in billionaire territory—yet—but give it time; after all, she’s playing the long game in a world where relevance is the real currency.