Brad Garlinghouse

CEO of Ripple. In May 2026 — at Consensus Miami and in a CoinDesk video interview — Garlinghouse publicly broke from the Coinbase / Cloudflare /…

CEO · Ripple

CEO of Ripple. In May 2026 — at Consensus Miami and in a CoinDesk video interview — Garlinghouse publicly broke from the Coinbase / Cloudflare / Freshworks / PayPal "AI-cited layoff" pattern and said Ripple was *not* cutting staff, despite roughly 75% of Ripple's code being written or assisted by AI tools. His framing: AI is letting humans focus on higher-value work, not replacing them. The "travesty" line is now the cleanest peer-CEO public dissent of the cycle and a structural counterweight to the Brian Armstrong / Matthew Prince / Dennis Woodside / Enrique Lores cluster — useful for the brand because it shows the operating-model story is a *choice*, not a tech inevitability.

First seen: 2026-05-08 · Last seen: 2026-05-24 · 3 mentions