Michael O'Rourke
Michael O'Rourke is the co-founder and CEO of Pocket Network, the decentralized RPC and data infrastructure protocol he started in Tampa, Florida in 2017, which launched its self-sovereign blockchain in 2020 and grew to tens of thousands of nodes relaying data for dozens of chains. He later founded Grove, the web3 infrastructure company built on top of Pocket Network, which raised a $7.35 million equity round backed by Avon Ventures, Placeholder, and Druid Ventures. Before blockchain he worked as an iOS developer.