Brad Garlinghouse

What strikes me about Brad Garlinghouse is the unlikely arc from Topeka, Kansas to the helm of one of crypto's most scrutinized companies. Having passed through AOL, Yahoo, and Hightail before Ripple, he reads to me less as a hype-chasing founder and more as an operator who learned the trade in the trenches of an earlier internet era. I respect executives who shoulder regulatory and reputational risk so publicly. There is a grounded, Midwestern steadiness about him that I think served him well in a field prone to froth. He is, to my mind, a builder rather than a showman.

Name (English)

Brad Garlinghouse

Name (Japanese)

ブラッド・ガーリングハウス

Reading

ぶらっど・がーりんぐはうす

Born

February 6, 1971 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

Origin

Topeka, Kansas, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

chief operating officer

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

University of Kansas

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Kansas
• chief operating officer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.