Lane Rettig

• "Started his first Internet company at the age of 14. He quickly became “obsessed with technology” and went on to study computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated at the top of his class.  He followed up with a job on Wall Street during the heady years before the 2008 crash."
• Has lived in Asia for a large part of his life.
• Well known ETH core dev who spoke out about the 'de facto technocracy' in Ethereum anno 2019: " "Ethereum governance has failed"; in a thread posted to Twitter, Rettig describes Ethereum as "...a de facto technocracy, where a small group of technocrats, the core devs, have final say over what goes into the protocol"; but Rettig adds a twist to his description of this power dynamic within the protocol's community by adding, "But the challenges we face today are increasingly non-technical; core devs don't want to make these decisions because they feel unqualified, fear legal liability, are conflict avoidant, and prefer just to write code" "