Brendan Blumer


Brendan Blumer is an American entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He is the CEO of Block.one, the tech company producing the EOS.IO distributed ledger software. He is based in Hong Kong.

Early life

Blumer was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When he was 15 years old, he developed a website to sell virtual assets in the multiplayer online gaming space. His website, known as Gamecliff, displayed different characters, weapons, and houses for MMORPG games including EverQuest and World of Warcraft.

Career

In 2005, Blumer's Gamecliff was acquired by IGE and the company moved to its new headquarters in Hong Kong to head Gamecliff's operations. Blumer founded The Accounts Network in 2007, a company that sold in-game MMORPG avatars and reached $1 million in revenue figures.
In 2010, Blumer launched Okay.com, an enterprise data sharing platform for real estate brokers in Asia. The company later merged with the real estate company Asia Pacific Properties. His next business project, ii5, also focused on real estate. Founded in 2013, startup was dedicated to real estate listings in India.
In 2016, Brendan Blumer met software programmer Daniel Larimer. In March 2017, they formed Block.One, an open source software publishing company specializing in high performance blockchain technologies. In May 2017, Blumer and Larimer announced their first project, EOS.IO. Critics have argued that Block.one's year long EOS initial coin offering is unnecessarily aggressive in the amount of funds that it is seeking to raise for such a product.
In February 2018, he was recognized by Forbes as one of "The Richest People In Cryptocurrency".