Our Team
Origin is a team of distributed entrepreneurs, engineers, and blockchain experts. Our mission is to enable the sharing economy on the decentralized web. We're hiring!
Core Team
Cofounder
Josh started coding at the age of 10. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage.
Cofounder
Matt was the 3rd PM at YouTube (acquired by Google) and VP PM at Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo) and Bonobos (acquired by Walmart). He has an MS and BS from Stanford.
Senior Engineer
Stan is a software architect with patents in decentralized trust, game design, computer vision, and robotics. Previously, he founded Lijit Networks (acquired by Federated Media).
Community
Andrew was the founder of four startups, including Startup Weekend, and has built global communities across dozens of countries. He was employee number 1 at TechStars.
Partnerships
Coleman is an active cryptocurrency investor and real estate entrepreneur, owning and managing multiple Airbnb properties. He studied mathematics at Berkeley.
Business Development
Jon was the 10th hire at Redbeacon (acquired by The Home Depot) and 1st hire at Datanyze where he served in multiple business development roles from VP of growth to COO.
R&D Engineer
Yu Pan was one of the 6 founding team members of PayPal and was the 1st employee at YouTube. He is a former Google employee and co-founder of Kiwi Crate.
Senior Engineer
Cuong Do was the former head of Dropbox NYC Engineering. Before that, Cuong was one of the early team members at PayPal and worked alongside Yu Pan and Matt at YouTube.
Engineer
Micah was the technical co-founder of WellAttended, a bootstrapped box office management platform. He worked as a commercial real estate broker while learning to code.
Engineer
Tyler is a full stack developer and blockchain enthusiast. He is a recent college graduate who has helped build an ecommerce platform in the auto recycling industry.
Finance & Operations
Kay is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). She previously worked as a Senior Accountant and then as a Senior Consultant at KPMG Canada.
Senior Engineer
Franck has had a successful career as an early employee at numerous high-profile companies. He previously led engineering teams at Inktomi, Paypal, YouTube, Google and Dropbox.
Marketing
Austin is an ambitious entrepreneur who has started and operated multiple successful online companies before launching a full service creative agency in Boulder, CO.
Advisors
Advisor/PR
Addison is a communications and marketing specialist with a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley. He previously worked with the Ethereum Foundation and DEVCON1.
Advisor/International BD
Melody is founder of Spartan Group, a blockchain advisory and investment fund. She was an early investor in TenX and strategic advisor to Gifto and Appcoins.
Advisor
Paul is a Partner at Pantera Capital. He is also an advisor to several highly successful cryptocurrency projects including Orchid Labs, Enigma and ICON.
Advisor
Joey is the co-founder of Augur, the world’s first decentralized prediction market and oracle system. He is a Co-Chief Investment Officer at Pantera Capital.
Community
Open-source Contributors
Investment Funds
