# Gavin Wood **Year of birth**: **Country of origin**: **Studied at**: **Worked at**: **Contributed to**: **Co-Founder**: [ [[Ethereum (blockchain)|Ethereum]] | [[Polkadot]] ] --- ![[Pasted image 20210501173633.png]] ![[Pasted image 20210501173721.png]] --- Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer, co-founder of [[Ethereum (blockchain)|Ethereum]] and creator of [[Polkadot]]. He invented [[Solidity]] and wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the [[Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)|Ethereum Virtual Machine]]. Wood served as the [[Ethereum Foundation|Ethereum Foundation]]'s first chief technology officer. After leaving Ethereum in 2016, he co-founded [[Parity Technologies]] (formerly [[Ethcore]]), which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, [[Bitcoin]], [[Zcash]] and Polkadot. In 2020, Polkadot was launched, he brought lights to Web3 foundation and made aware of this foundation to more blockchain developers. ‍ Quote: "Adoption will continue and the technology is not going away"