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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.

الفريق الأساسي

جوش فريزر

شريك مؤسس

بدأ Josh الترميز في سن العاشرة. وقبل Origin ، شارك في تأسيس ثلاث شركات أخرى مدعومة بالمشروع: EventVue ، Torbit (حصلت عليها Walmart Labs) & Forage.

ماثيو ليو

شريك مؤسس

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.

يو بان

Founding Engineer

كان Yu Pan أحد أعضاء الفريق المؤسسين الستة في PayPal وكان أول موظف في YouTube. وهو السابق موظفي Google والمؤسس المشارك لالكيوي قفص.

فرانك تشاستاجنول

VP of Engineering

وكان فرانك مهنة ناجحة في وقت مبكر موظف في العديد من الشركات البارزة. وقد سبق له قيادة فريق هندسي في Inktomi و Paypal و YouTube و Google و Dropbox.

ميكا الكورن

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.

نيك بولدن

كبير المهندسين

درس نيك علوم الكمبيوتر في جامعة وارويك . قبل انضمامه إلى Origin ، عمل كمهندس في Sencha و C3 Energy Network و Palo Alto Networks.

دومين جرابك

مهندس

DOMEN شارك في تأسيسه وقاد فريق تطوير تطبيقات الهاتف المتحرك مع 2 الشطرنج. وسبق كان مستقبل مهني ناجح في CETRA، زمنتا وPeerindex.

شاهول حميد

مهندس

Shahul هو مهندس fullstack الذي بدأ البرمجة في سن ال 10. وقد عمل سابقا بالقطعة ثم التحق زوهو كمطور الأمامية.

مايك شولتز

مهندس

مايك مساهم منذ وقت طويل في المصادر المفتوحة. قام بإنشاء مجموعة أدوات تطوير لإنشاء عقود ذكية Ethereum مع Python وعمل سابقًا مع Ethereum و IPFS في Lunyr.

Aure Gimon

Product Designer

Aure هو مصمم المنتج مع 10+ سنوات من الخبرة . وقبل انضمامه إلى الأصل، وعملت Aure في عدة الشركات الناشئة وشركات فورتشن 500. في حياته الماضية ، كان أيضًا مهندس برامج.

Daniel Von Fange

كبير المهندسين

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.

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

كبير المهندسين

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

كبير المهندسين

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

كبير المهندسين

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 did product and operations at Uber. He enjoys engaging on Clubhouse and building NFT communities on the ground in Korea.

Peter Gray

BD Manager, OUSD

Peter studied business at Tulane University and worked on the sales teams at Palo Alto Networks, VMware, and Alkemi Network before joining Origin as the OUSD BD Manager. He is a musician, hockey player, and avid skier.

Nick Hong

كبير المهندسين

Before Origin, Nick was on product teams at Medium, Eaze, and Instacart, and more recently jumped into Web3 with Driftershoots on his FirstDayOut Open Edition. Outside of work, Nick enjoys kickboxing, meditation, and trying out new cooking with his air fryer.

Matt Bullock

Product Designer

Matt is a product designer specialising in DeFi and Web3 for the past 4 years. He was the first designer to join Augur and later went on to work at Dapper Labs. Before this he was doing the rounds in various advertising and design agencies across London.

Jonathan Snow

Data Engineer

Before joining Origin, Jonathan worked with several crypto and finance brands, focusing on building data pipelines and automation tools. Prior to that, he helped build a company that provided social media user data to a number of startups and PR firms.

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