A world-class team led by entrepreneurs and engineers from iconic tech companies

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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.

Kernteam

Josh Fraser

Co-founder

Josh begon op 10-jarige leeftijd te coderen. Vóór Origin richtte hij drie andere door ondernemingen gesteunde bedrijven op: EventVue, Torbit (overgenomen door Walmart Labs) & Forage.

Matthew Liu

Co-founder

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 was een van de 6 oprichtende teamleden van PayPal en was de 1e medewerker bij YouTube. Hij is een voormalige Google-medewerker en mede-oprichter van Kiwi Crate.

Franck Chastagnol

VP of Engineering

Franck heeft een succesvolle carrière gehad als vroege werknemer bij tal van spraakmakende bedrijven. Eerder leidde hij engineeringteams bij Inktomi, Paypal, YouTube, Google en Dropbox.

Micah Alcorn

Director of Product

Micah was de technische mede-oprichter van WellAttended, een bootstrapped box office managementplatform. Hij werkte als commercieel makelaarskantoor terwijl hij code aan het leren was.

Tom Linton

Senior Engineer

Vóór Origin had Tom een succesvolle carrière als oprichter van solo . Hij heeft twee Masters-graden in Distributed Systems van de Technische Universiteit van Berlijn en KTH in Stockholm.

Nick Poulden

Senior Engineer

Nick studeerde Informatica aan de Universiteit van Warwick. Voordat hij bij Origin kwam, werkte hij als ingenieur bij Sencha, C3 Energy Network en Palo Alto Networks.

Domen Grabec

Engineer

Domen was mede-oprichter en leidde een team dat een mobiele applicatie ontwikkelde met 2 schaakgrootmeesters. Hij was eerder had een succesvolle carrière bij Cetra, Zemanta en Peerindex.

Shahul Hameed

Engineer

Shahul is een fullstack ingenieur die begon programmering op de leeftijd van 10. Hij werkte eerder als freelancer en vervolgens bij Zoho als een front-end developer.

Mike Shultz

Engineer

Mike levert al heel lang bijdragen aan open-source. Hij maakte een ontwikkelaarskit voor het maken van Ethereum smart contracts met Python en werkte eerder met Ethereum en IPFS bij Lunyr.

Aure Gimon

Product Designer

Aure is een product ontwerper met 10 + jaar van ervaring. Voordat Aure bij Origin kwam werken, werkte hij bij meerdere startups en Fortune 500-bedrijven. In een vorig leven was hij ook een software-ingenieur.

Daniel Von Fange

Senior Engineer

Daniel brings a strong emphasis on security and data analysis to our team. Daniel has earned a reputation for being able to gather massive amounts of data and create dynamic visualizations at lightning speed.

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

Senior Engineer

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

Senior Engineer

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

Senior Engineer

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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