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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.
Founding 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.
VP of Engineering
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.
Director of Product
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.
Director of BD & Ops
Kay is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).
She previously worked as a Senior Accountant and then as a
Senior Consultant at KPMG Canada.
Business Development
Coleman is an active cryptocurrency investor and
real estate entrepreneur, owning and managing multiple Airbnb
properties. He studied mathematics at Berkeley.
Regional Manager Korea
Mila is leading our community efforts in South
Korea. She previously organized blockhain hackathons and has
degrees from Penn State and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Senior Engineer
Before Origin, Tom had a successful career as a
solo startup founder. He has two Masters degrees in
Distributed Systems from the Technical University of Berlin
and KTH in Stockholm.
Senior Engineer
Nick studied Computer Science at the University of
Warwick. Prior to joining Origin, he worked as an engineer at
Sencha, C3 Energy Network and Palo Alto Networks.
Engineer
Domen co-founded and led a team developing a
mobile application with 2 chess Grandmasters. He previously
had a successful career at Cetra, Zemanta and Peerindex.
Engineer
Shahul is a fullstack engineer who started
programming at age of 10. He previously worked as a freelancer
and then joined Zoho as a front-end developer.
Engineer
Mike is a long-time contributor to open-source. He
created a dev toolkit for creating Ethereum smart contracts
with Python and previously worked with Ethereum and IPFS at
Lunyr.
Product Designer
Aure is a product designer with 10+ years of
experience. Prior to joining Origin, Aure worked at multiple
startups and Fortune 500 companies. In a past life, he was
also a software engineer.
Head of Community
Before joining Origin, Max helped build
communities for notable blockchain companies like OKEx. He
also worked with RedNova, the marketing and incubation entity
for Du Capital.
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.
Social Media Manager
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.
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Community team
Zoe Hoang
Moisés Sosa
Kevin Lee
Danil Myakin
Joseph Stewart
Erkan Ciftci
Stefano Terenzi
Zizen Chang
Lee Gwangmyeong
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