This is the fifth post of the series of posts about the Ethereum Founders and it will be focused on Amir Chetrit. I hope you enjoy the reading and if you have tips to improve, feel free to tell me so that I can do better in the next post.

Amir Chetrit

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• Wellfound: https://wellfound.com/u/amir-chetrit

Who is he and how he got in Ethereum?

Amir Chetrit is a US-Israeli national that studied computer science degree but dropped out and then jumped in real estate before 2008. Like most of the other founders he started to doubt about traditional financial system. He got into Bitcoin and it was in a Bitcoin business conference in Amsterdam in September 2013 when he met Vitalik.

Amir, at the time he met Vitalik was working with a Israeli startup Colored Coins, a project to manage real world assets as tokens on top of Bitcoin.

In December 2013 Vitalik asket Amir to join him.

Role

He was one of the founders but I have not found exactly what his role was. Anyway, at the co-founders meeting in June 2014, Amir was accused by ETH developers and other co-founders for his lack of input on Ethereum so he agreed to step down while remaining a cofounder.

After Ethereum

After he stepped down he keeps quietly supporting various different blockchain projects, but is very low-profile, and doesn’t like publicity. There is not much info about this guy. I searched and searched and he is anonymous right now.