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Bringing NFTs and DeFi to the masses

Origin was founded in 2017 by successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and has a team of experienced engineers from iconic tech companies like YouTube, Google, PayPal, and DropBox. Today, Origin is a global community with hundreds of open-source contributors and thousands of token holders. We work in public and you can always find at least one of us awake in our Discord.

Core team

Josh Fraser

Co-fondatore

Josh ha iniziato a programmare all'età di 10 anni. Prima di Origin è stato co-fondatore di altre tre compagnie a capitale investito: EventVue, Torbit (acquisita da Walmart Labs) & Forage.

Matthew Liu

Co-fondatore

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 a MS and BS from Stanford.

Yu Pan

Founding Engineer

Yu Pan era uno dei 6 membri fondatori di PayPal ed è stato il 1° dipendente in YouTube. Lui è un ex dipendente di Google e co-fondatore di Kiwi Crate.

Franck Chastagnol

VP of Engineering

Franck ha avuto una carriera di successo tra i primi impiegati di numerose aziende di alto profilo. In precedenza ha guidato team di ingegneri in Inktomi, Paypal, YouTube, Google e Dropbox.

Micah Alcorn

Director of Product

Micah era il co-fondatore tecnico di WellAttended, una piattaforma di gestione al botteghino avviata. Ha lavorato come mediatore immobiliare commerciale mentre imparava a scrivere codici.

Tom Linton

Ingegnere Senior

Prima di Origin, Tom ha avuto una carriera di successo come fondatore di startup. Ha due Master in Sistemi Distribuiti presso l'Università Tecnica di Berlino e KTH a Stoccolma.

Nick Poulden

Ingegnere Senior

Nick ha studiato informatica all'Università di Warwick. Prima di entrare in Origin, ha lavorato come ingegnere presso Sencha, C3 Energy Network e Palo Alto Networks.

Domen Grabec

Engineer

Domen ha co-fondato e guidato un team con 2 maestri di scacchi, che ha sviluppato un'applicazione mobile. In precedenza ha avuto una carriera di successo in Cetra, Zemanta e Peerindex.

Shahul Hameed

Engineer

Shahul è un ingegnere fullstack che ha iniziato a programmare all'età di 10 anni. Precedentemente ha lavorato come freelancer e poi si è unito a Zoho come sviluppatore front-end.

Mike Shultz

Engineer

Mike collabora da molto tempo all'open source. Ha creato un toolkit di sviluppo per la creazione di smart contract Ethereum con Python e prima ha lavorato con Ethereum e IPFS presso Lunyr.

Aure Gimon

Product Designer

Aure è un Product Designer con oltre 10 anni di esperienza. Prima di unirsi a Origin, Aure ha lavorato per diverse startup e aziende Fortune 500. In passato, è stato anche un ingegnere software.

Daniel Von Fange

Ingegnere Senior

Daniel pone una forte enfasi sulla sicurezza e sull'analisi dei dati al nostro team. Daniel si è guadagnato la reputazione di essere in grado di raccogliere enormi quantità di dati e creare visualizzazioni dinamiche alla velocità della luce.

William Tong

Business Development

William Tong was a real estate broker before stumbling into the world of NFTs. He quickly built a reputation as a connector and community builder on the Clubhouse app and within the broader NFT collector community.

Chase Colman

Project Manager

Chase comes from creative and marketing agency life in Los Angeles. She’s managed projects and accounts for clients like YouTube, W Hotels, and Stitch Fix. She's now in charge of creator relationship management at Origin.

Eric Charles

Account Manager

Eric was an early employee at Lyft and a founding member of their first B2B solution. He was an account manager at Tophatter and worked at a marketing agency connecting brands with creators and celebrities.

Jon Youshaei

Creator in Residence

Jon has spent his career helping creators. Before joining Origin, Jon was responsible for creator monetization marketing at YouTube and product marketing at Instagram. He's also a frequent contributor for Forbes.

Kara Chang

Executive Assistant

Kara is the executive assistant to Origin co-founders, Josh and Matt. She graduated from UC San Diego and previously managed a team of 10 people at an ecommerce company in Taiwan.

Ed Spencer

Ingegnere Senior

Ed previously worked at Sencha, C3 Energy Network, and Palo Alto Networks as a UI and software architect. He studied at the University of Warwick where he met his lifelong friend and now colleague, Nick Poulden.

Aaron Faulkner

Head of Community

Aaron has spent his career building and managing communities. He served as a long-term member of our community team before joining fulltime to help us with social media, content, and marketing at Origin.

Christopher Jacobs

Ingegnere Senior

Chris previously worked at OCZ, Toshiba, Storcentric and Palo Alo Networks as a Full Stack / UI Engineer. He is a creative developer who has over 15 years experience architecting software solutions.

Kelly Hwang

Investments/Treasury

Kelly was previously a successful startup founder and venture investor at Upfront Ventures before spending the last few years investing in DeFi. He has a BA in Economics from Stanford.

Linus Chung

VP of Product

Linus previously worked as Director of Product at Coinbase. Before that, he lead product at companies like Tesla, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

Andra Nicolau

Head of BD, OUSD

Andra is a longtime crypto veteran. She was most recently the Head of Growth at 1inch where she raised over $250M. She has spent over 8 years in Silicon Valley and studied Economics at UC Berkeley.

Justin Charlton

Head of Finance

Justin started investing in middle school, designed budgets for launching satellites into space (successfully!), and advised tech clients on M&A and strategy for 7 years at PwC and KPMG.

Tom Hirst

Ingegnere Senior

Tom helped ship digital projects for the NHS, Umbro, BMW and Meta before entering web3. He has launched multiple successful solo endeavours, including most recently, an NFT project with fully on-chain artwork.

Youngsun Shin

Product Manager

Youngsun previously worked as a product manager at Coupang. Before that, he was at Uber as product and operations. Outside of work, he loves building communities and took part in building the Clubhouse Korean community and several Korean NFT communities.

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