# Team

## [jo - first contributor](https://x.com/joiscoding)

> hi all! 
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> fun fact: my first BTC purchase back in 2016 was for a fake id (which i never even used lol). naturally, I sold the BTC right after... fattest L of my life. 
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> after graduating, I worked at amazon for 3 years before founding my own ai agent infra company in sf. we scaled it to a $10m valuation in under 6 months before getting acquisition-hired by scale AI last year. 
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> fast forward to october, val (my brother from another mother) hmu about doing something cool on solana with my AI and startup background. right away, we saw how many people were getting wrecked by ruggers, myself included (RIP to thousands of $). 
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> and just like that, ANTIRUG was born 🚀

## [val - second contributor](https://x.com/v4l4g_)

> hey, 
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> I'm from france and I like to tell people that I run but really I don't run. I traveled to too many countries: 123+ in counting. currently, trying to complete south america atm. 
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> antirug wouldn't have been born unless I told jo to work his ass off. so really you guys should thank me.
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> oh and I am a wizard when it comes to marketing btw.