David Rhodus / Engineer & founder

I build the systems behind content and AI compute.

From a Kentucky dial-up ISP to cloud video and distributed infrastructure.

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An engineer first.
A founder by doing.

David Rhodus, CEO of Permissionless Labs and founder of Pipe Network — David Rhodus CEO, Permissionless Labs

I’ve spent my career connecting people, moving data, and making complex systems work.

I’m CEO of Permissionless Labs and founder of Pipe Network. Permissionless Labs is the company behind Pipe Network and a core contributor to the Pipe protocol.

I started Wildcat Internet in a small Kentucky town, providing dial-up access, website hosting, and e-commerce services. Netscape made the web approachable enough to build a business around connecting people to it.

As Head of IT at Administrative Services Group (ASGI), I migrated large-scale insurance and pension systems from RPG on IBM AS/400 and COBOL on HP-UX to x64 systems using C and SQL. Fiserv acquired the company in 2005.

At Elemental Technologies, I built out the cloud platform that helped transform a hardware appliance business into a cloud-services company, leading to its acquisition by AWS. At Consensys, I worked on Ethereum applications and developer tooling.

Today, my work at Permissionless Labs focuses on distributed infrastructure for content and AI compute.

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