{"id":"chris-larsen","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chris-larsen","language":"en","name":"Chris Larsen","name_en":"Chris Larsen","name_ne":null,"description":"American programmer","headline":"American programmer","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Christian Larsen is an American business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups, including one based on peer to peer lending. In 1996, he co-founded the online mortgage lender E-Loan, and during his tenure as CEO E-Loan became the first company to freely provide consumers' FICO credit scores. By 2000, E-Loan's market value was estimated at $1 billion In 2005, Larsen left the company when it was sold to Banco Popular. In 2006, he co-founded Prosper Marketplace and was CEO until 2012. Later in 2012, he co-founded the company Ripple Labs, Inc., which developed Ripple, software that enables the instant and direct transfer of money between two parties.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1960","date":"1960"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"San Francisco","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"business executive","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2961975"},{"text":"angel investor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778274"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Stanford Graduate School of Business","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413558"},{"text":"San Francisco State University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1256981"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P69"}},{"key":"x","label":"X (Twitter)","values":[{"text":"chrislarsensf","url":"https://x.com/chrislarsensf"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P2002"}},{"key":"instagram","label":"Instagram","values":[{"text":"lmsjetman","url":"https://www.instagram.com/lmsjetman/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583#P2003"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583","https://x.com/chrislarsensf","https://www.instagram.com/lmsjetman/"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Chris Larsen born?","a":"Chris Larsen was born on 1960 in San Francisco."},{"q":"Where did Chris Larsen study?","a":"Chris Larsen was educated at Stanford Graduate School of Business, San Francisco State University."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/chris-larsen-aba697043b.jpg","width":500,"height":662,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"When Shift Happens","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Larsen_on_When_Shift_Happens_(2025).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Chris Larsen","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q19864583","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19864583","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Chris Larsen on When Shift Happens (2025).jpg by When Shift Happens (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Larsen_on_When_Shift_Happens_(2025).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Chris Larsen, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Chris Larsen on When Shift Happens (2025).jpg — When Shift Happens, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Chris Larsen\". DigiNepal. Last updated 4 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/chris-larsen. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-04T23:29:21Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/chris-larsen","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/chris-larsen","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/chris-larsen?lang=ne"}}