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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're hiring!
We are a distributed team with employees all over the world. We have a fast-paced bias-to-action culture and a really big vision for bringing crypto mainstream. Check out our open-positions on AngelList.
Gemeenschapsteam

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