Jordan Ritter

About

Jordan is an accomplished software architect and technical entrepreneur. In 1999, Jordan became one of the original members of [Napster](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/napster), developing the technology with [Shawn Fanning](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/shawn-fanning) before the company was officially funded in August. Until his departure in November of 2000, Jordan primarily served as Chief Server Architect and was responsible for the server backend software and infrastructure, helping lead the technology to support 60 million users worldwide in less than a year. In 2001 Jordan co-founded [Cloudmark](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudmark) with [Vipul Ved Prakash](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/vipul-ved-prakash), building the world's first commercial machine-learning, reputation-based anti-spam platform, which today protects about 13% of all email inboxes on the Internet. In 2006 Jordan left [Cloudmark](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudmark) to

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Seattle, US