Jim Rutt is an American businessman and entrepreneur who was the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He was also a Researcher in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute from 2002 to 2004, studying the application of complexity science to financial markets, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He is one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the highly scalable blockchain architecture. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet until its acquisition by Verisign in 2000.

Jim was the first CTO of Thomson-Reuters. He was Chairman of the computer chip design software company Analog Design Automation until its acquisition by Synposis in 2004. Previously he either founded or played a key role in several significant information services and network companies: THE SOURCE, Business Research Corp., First Call, Pinpoint Information, Wall Street on Demand, and MarketSwitch.

Jim Rutt is the host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast series. The Jim Rutt Show is an interview podcast series examining cutting-edge thinking in science and technology and the future of our economic, political and social systems and institutions. Available on all popular podcast apps.

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