Charles Hoskinson is CEO and Founder of Input Output Group, the company behind the Cardano blockchain and a co-founder of Ethereum. He operates an 11,000-acre bison ranch, owns a construction company and an anti-aging healthcare clinic in rural Wyoming, and is involved in projects ranging from genetic engineering of bioluminescent plants to de-extincting the dire wolf. He also funded and joined a maritime expedition that recovered extrasolar fragments near Papua New Guinea. In 2021, he founded the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and regularly shares his views with a large following on YouTube and X