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Alex Atallah
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- online marketplace
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Organization
- Cofounder at OpenSea
- Education
- Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Single
Biography
Alex Atallah is Chief Technology Officer of OpenSea, a marketplace for nonfungible tokens--digital assets that represent real world objects, like art.
He cofounded New York-based OpenSea in 2018 with CEO Devin Finzer.
Atallah and Finzer became the first NFT billionaires in January 2021, after a funding round that valued their company at $13.3 billion.
He was born in Colorado to a Colombian-immigrant father and American mother.
He graduated from Stanford and worked as programmer at Palantir and two startups before starting OpenSea.