In a social media world dominated by such behemoths as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and others, Leonid Radvinsky is eager to play the role of disruptor. His latest effort toward that goal is the creation of Pleroma, a microblogging operation that can exchange messages with other servers that support the same protocols.

Leo Radvinsky describes himself as a “big believer” in the tremendous potential of open-source platforms to help individual users in social media spaces have control over their own content. In a world where most social media giants stomp all over their users’ rights to privacy by selling their data, Pleroma will put a premium on privacy and security.

Pleroma is an ambitious project. Leonid Radvinsky assembled a powerhouse team of top-flight engineers and digital communications specialists to reimagine things like communications protocols, server infrastructure, and the software environments most common to existing social media platforms. See This Article. His plan is not just to compete with the social media giants but also to innovate his way around them.

Leonid Radvinsky is president of Leo.com, a boutique venture capital fund. This operation works mostly in the technology space. Radvinsky is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics.