Who were the people in Ethereum's launch day photo? And where did they go?

Launch day photo by Lefteris

This photo was taken by developer Lefteris Karapetsas 9 years ago during Ethereum's launch day. He went on to found Rotki, a portfolio tracker.

Starting from Vitalik and going clockwise.

Most of these descriptions are from Lefteris's Twitter post, and I added some notes of my own:

• Vitalik - Just some guy. Currently an Ethereum Researcher.
• Gustav Simonsson - Worked on Ethereum a bit and then went on to Dfinity (ICP)
• Christian Reitwiessner - Creator of Solidity. Lead dev of the C++ team for EF
• Liana Husikyan - Solidity and main dev of Remix
• Christoph Jentsch - Ethereum testing suite. Founder of slockit. Creator of the DAO. Now CEO at Corpus Ventures and Tokenize
• Gavin Wood - Ethereum co-founder, and co-creator of Solidity. Founder of Polkadot. Author of the Ethereum Yellow Paper.
• Vlad Gluchowski - Worked in Whisper.
• Kelley Becker - Was on the project for a very brief time.
• Vlad Zamfir - Ethereum researcher. Lead architect for Ethereum's Casper consensus protocol.
• Felix Lange - Go Ethereum dev.
• Frithjof Weinert - Was briefly CFO for at EF.
• Fabian Vogelsteller - Ethereum developer mainly focused on web3.js and mist. Now Founder/CEO of LUKSO.
• Aeron Buchanan - Ethereum developer/research. Later went on to work with Gavin to found Parity.
• Lefteris Karapetsas Worked on Solidity compiler and its C++ client at the time. Ethereum developer.
• Jutta Steiner - Ethereum developer. Later went on to work on Parity with Gavin.
• Yann Levreau - Worked on Remix and is still part of the same team.

It's interesting that several of these went onto work on Polkadot and Parity. Gavin certainly had a lot of early influence.

Other notes:

• Solidity is the main smart contract developer language for Ethereum VM
• Remix is a very popular tool for quickly compiling and deploying EVM smart contracts