Ripple
San Francisco–based blockchain payments company. In May 2026, CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly stated at Consensus Miami and in a CoinDesk interview that…
Blockchain / Payments · Labor Replacement
San Francisco–based blockchain payments company. In May 2026, CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly stated at Consensus Miami and in a CoinDesk interview that Ripple is not cutting staff and called AI-cited layoffs at peer companies a "travesty." Garlinghouse said roughly 75% of Ripple's code is now written or assisted by AI tools — a productivity datapoint comparable to Freshworks' "more than half" — but said AI lets humans focus on higher-value work, not get displaced. For Cancel Clankers, Ripple is the cleanest *counter-CEO* receipt of the May 2026 named-CEO Pillar 02 cluster: same productivity arithmetic, opposite operating-model decision.
Recent moves
- 2026-05 — Garlinghouse at Consensus Miami: "no Ripple layoffs" / "AI as boogeyman is a travesty" / "75% of code written or assisted by AI" / "AI lets teams focus on higher-value work"
Key people
- Brad Garlinghouse — CEO
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First seen: 2026-05-08 · Last seen: 2026-05-24 · 3 mentions