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Richard Hendricks

CEO/President at Pied Piper

Resume

Richard invented and built the start-up Pied Piper, a program designed to find music matches, while living at Erlich’s Hacker Hostel alongside his best friend Big Head and fellow geeks Dinesh and Gilfoyle. Pied Piper’s compression algorithm triggered a bidding war and ultimately garnered funding from Peter Gregory's company Raviga. After winning TechCrunch Disrupt -- and $50,000 -- Richard and Pied Piper are in the spotlight more than ever, which for Richard means non-stop thrills

Experience

  • Jan 2020 to Present

    Hendricks Venture Capital

    Founding Partner San Francisco, CA

    We fund companies trying to change the world

  • Apr 2014 to Dec 2019

    Pied Piper

    I am the CEO of PiedPiper and working on providing free and decentralized internet.

    • Launched PiperNet, a decentralized internet for the world
    • Created PiedPiperCoin, a cryptocurrency to support the open internet
    • Discovered Middle-Out Compression which provides the highest standard for lossless compression

  • Mar 2014 to Mar 2014

    Aviato

    Developer Fremont, CA

    I built the aggregation algorithm to track flights

Projects

  • middle-out-compression

    www.hooli.xyz/

    Making files smaller

    Go C++

  • pied-piper-coin

    www.piedpiper.com/

    The currency of the open web

    Typescript Go Node.js React.js
    • Teacher at CoderDojo
    • Booze
    • I can write code using only one monitor

Languages

🇺🇸 ENGLISH

Skills

Web Development

HTML CSS JS GO C++ C Python Java

Compression

MPEG MP4 GIF

Education

  • Jun 2011 – Jan 2014
    Bachelor in Information Technology from University of Oklahoma with GPA of 4.0

Awards

Nov 2014

Digital Compression Pioneer Award from Techcrunch

There is no spoon.

Wants

I would like to hire Yurii, but he uses spaces, not tabs...

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