But years before the platform launched, an individual going by the same name as one of its cofounders, Dylan Kerler, was already making a small fortune hawking—then dumping—home-baked coins. A WIRED investigation identified eight coins launched by an individual using the name Dylan Kerler in 2017. At that point, the Dylan Kerler who cofounded Pump.Fun was 16 years old. Pump.Fun and Dylan Kerler did not respond to several requests for comment. Pump.Fun was created in January 2024 by three entrepreneurs in their early twenties: Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, and Dylan Kerler.