Thanks for the mention!
He is one of the earlier Steemians and probably close to people either working at Steemit or Part of the developing team himself.
I'm not very close to the Steem dev team. I'm just an independent thinker, who happens to be very interested in blockchain technology. That's why I jumped into Steem when it was launched, it seemed to so promising.
And did it fulfil its promise? Tell me noooooow