page_title: Gavin Wood
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caption_attribution_description: English: Gavin Wood
context_page_description: Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer who co-founded Ethereum. He invented Solidity and wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. After leaving in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies, which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Zcash and Polkadot, an interoperability protocol he also co-founded.
context_section_description: Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer who co-founded Ethereum. He invented Solidity and wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. After leaving in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore), which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Zcash and Polkadot, an interoperability protocol he also co-founded.
caption: Gavin Wood speaking in 2015
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