Brandon Tory

Brandon Tory Thorpe is an American entrepreneur, software engineer and artist.

Early life

He was born In the Boston area and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study electrical engineering.[1] As a teen, Brandon dreamed of becoming a hacker and taught himself programming on a computer he built from spare parts.[1]

Career

Brandon's engineering career began at Teradyne where he worked on device driver software for embedded systems. Brandon worked as a senior software engineer at Apple, and later transitioned to Google to work as a staff engineer on artificial intelligence. [2] Brandon founded Formless, Inc. which built SHARE Protocol, a decentralized distribution technology using peer-to-peer micro-transactions on blockchain. [3] Brandon raised a $2.2 million pre-seed round for Formless with participation from a16z Crypto. [4]


Recognition

The Wall Street Journal featured Brandon on the cover of their Business section in an article titled "When Your Day Job Isn’t Enough; A Computer Nerd Who Raps".[2] CNBC featured Brandon in their Young Success section with an article titled “From growing up homeless to coding at Apple and Google — all while rapping for Timbaland”.[1] Forbes featured Brandon in an article titled "Google A.I. Engineer/Rapper Wants Kids To Know It's Cool To Be A Genius".[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Stevens, Zameena Mejia, Mary (2019-01-08). "This engineer was a homeless teen — now he's a rapper working at Google". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Feintzeig, Rachel (2018-10-17). "When Your Day Job Isn't Enough". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  3. ^ Zimmerman, Randi (2024-01-21). "How Symphonic Distributes Using the SHARE Protocol". Symphonic. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
  4. ^ "Formless Successfully Raises $2.2 Million in Pre-Seed Funding". PR Newswire. 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
  5. ^ Goldsmith, Margie (2019-01-21). "Google A.I. Engineer/Rapper Wants Kids To Know It's Cool To Be A Genius". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
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