Jordan Fried grew up in Buffalo, New York. The second oldest of 10 children, Jordan was passionate about business from a very early age – mostly as a way to buy new shoes and clothes. Jordan dropped out of college and moved to Budapest, Hungary where he successfully started a sold his first software company, Buffered VPN.

Jordan has since started several other businesses including Hedera Hashgraph, Immutable Holdings, NFT.com, PuertoRico.com, and more. Fried is an active technology investor and has been featured in Time Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc.com, Wired.com, Success.com, Business Insider, and more.