Jay Graber
Jay Graber is Chief Innovation Officer at Bluesky Social and previously served as CEO there. Graber founded Happening, Inc, and has held roles as a software engineer at Skuchain and Zcash Company, and as an organizer at Free Press.
Uncommon Thinkers 2025: Solar spacecraft, sci-fi biology, destroying PFAS, beyond AI chatbots, and better social media
On this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala at the Showbox Sodo, we sit down with five of the inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs selected as the Seattle region's 2025 Uncommon Thinkers, in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners. Jeff Thornburg spent years building rocket engines for Elon Musk at SpaceX and Paul Allen at Stratolaunch. Now, as CEO of Portal Space Systems, he's moved past chemical rockets to revive a concept NASA studied decades ago but never pursued — a spacecraft powered by focused sunlight. He calls it a "steam engine for space." Read the…
Organizations
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Bluesky Chief Innovation Officer 2026–present, CEO 2021–2026 · current
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Happening, Inc Founder 2019–2021 · past
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Zcash Company Software Engineer 2016–2018 · past
Education
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Dev Bootcamp Computer Software Engineering · 2015
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University of Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Science, Technology, & Society · 2009–2013
