Anatoly Yakovenko is the most important person behind Solana. His professional career started at Qualcomm. Later on, Yakovenko entered a new position as a software engineer at Dropbox.
In 2017, Yakovenko started working on a project which would later materialize as Solana. He teamed up with his Qualcomm colleague Greg Fitzgerald, and they founded a project called Solana Labs.
Attracting several more former Qualcomm colleagues in the process, the Solana protocol and SOL token were released to the public in 2020.
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