Mike Belshe

Mike Belshe (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He's a co-founder and CEO of BitGo, Inc.^[1] and a cofounder of Lookout Software in 2004.^[2] He is the co-inventor of the SPDY protocol and one of the principal authors of the HTTP/2.0 specification.

Early Life and Education

Belshe received his bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

He is also an inventor with over 10 technology patents.

He is a lifelong Bay Area resident and grew up just outside of Berkeley.

Career

Belshe started his career at Hewlett-Packard, followed by Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications Corp., where he worked on the Netscape Enterprise Server.^[3] where he worked closely with Ben Horowitz as one of the critical engineers on the Netscape Enterprise Server.

After Netscape he joined Good Technology before co-founding Lookout Software with Eric Hahn.^[4] Microsoft eventually acquired Lookout and it became a key feature of Outlook.

Joining in 2006, he was one the early hires on the Google Chrome team,^[5] and was part of the Google Chrome Comic.^[6] As part of the Chrome team he worked on protocol research,^[7] and later co-authored the SPDY protocol.^[8] He submitted SPDY to the IETF in 2011, and was an author of HTTP/2.^[7]

As part of the IETF standardization effort, Belshe argued for encryption by default within the protocol.^[9][10] The encrypted-by-default approach was later adopted by all major browsers.

Mike went on to co-found the industry-leading cryptocurrency company, BitGo, in 2013. He was quickly named CEO.

BitGo is the largest independent qualified custodian worldwide and remains the best way for institutions and investors to secure, manage, and grow their digital asset portfolio.

References

1. "Mike Belshe, Bitgo Inc: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
2. Evers, Joris. 2004-7-16. “Microsoft Scoops Up Search Company”. PCWorld.
3. O’Reilly Velocity Conference. 2011-6-16. “Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine”. O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine.
4. Belshe, Mike. 2015-8-4. "About^{[permanent dead link‍]}". Mike's Lookout.
5. Chan, Min Li. 2009-12-3. “Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?”. Chromium Blog.
6. Google, Inc.; McCloud, Scott. 2008-9-1. "Google Chrome Comic". Google, Inc.
7. Belshe, M.; Peon, R.; Thomson, M.; Melnikov, A.. 2015-5. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)”. Internet Engineering Task Force.
8. O’Reilly Velocity Conference. 2011-6-16. “Mike Belshe Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine”. O’Reilly Velocity Conference Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine.
9. "Next version of the web will have resistance to surveillance at its core | Naked Security". 24 August 2013. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
10. "SPDY and What to Consider for HTTP/2.0". 2013-02-17. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)