Brandon Tory
Brandon Tory Thorpe is an American entrepreneur, software engineer and artist.
Early life
[edit]He was born In the Boston area and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study electrical engineering.[1] As a teen, Brandon dreamed of becoming a hacker and taught himself programming on a computer he built from spare parts.[1]
Career
[edit]Brandon's engineering career began at Teradyne where he worked on device driver software for embedded systems. Brandon worked as a senior software engineer at Apple, and later transitioned to Google to work as a staff engineer on artificial intelligence. [2] Brandon founded Formless, Inc. which built SHARE Protocol, a decentralized distribution technology using peer-to-peer micro-transactions on blockchain. [3] Brandon raised a $2.2 million pre-seed round for Formless with participation from a16z Crypto. [4]
Recognition
[edit]The Wall Street Journal featured Brandon on the cover of their Business section in an article titled "When Your Day Job Isn’t Enough; A Computer Nerd Who Raps".[2] CNBC featured Brandon in their Young Success section with an article titled “From growing up homeless to coding at Apple and Google — all while rapping for Timbaland”.[1] Forbes featured Brandon in an article titled "Google A.I. Engineer/Rapper Wants Kids To Know It's Cool To Be A Genius".[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Stevens, Zameena Mejia, Mary (2019-01-08). "This engineer was a homeless teen — now he's a rapper working at Google". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Feintzeig, Rachel (2018-10-17). "When Your Day Job Isn't Enough". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^ Zimmerman, Randi (2024-01-21). "How Symphonic Distributes Using the SHARE Protocol". Symphonic. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ "Formless Successfully Raises $2.2 Million in Pre-Seed Funding". PR Newswire. 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ Goldsmith, Margie (2019-01-21). "Google A.I. Engineer/Rapper Wants Kids To Know It's Cool To Be A Genius". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
External links
[edit]- Official website of Brandon Tory Thorpe