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Colin Johnson

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Colin Johnson

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Nf.td/Colin

Currently building Ponder, an onchain human curation platform

Hey,

My name’s Colin.

I’m originally from Trenton, NJ, but one day I decided to ride the Northeast Corridor up to New York and work the marketing desk at American Express. That went well, so I was invited out to Silicon Valley where I joined the Apple Pay marketing team for a five year adventure, growing that product to global scale alongside some of the world’s most creative and innovative minds.

Then COVID called and I was off to build my own thing. I’m now in Atlanta working on Ponder, a social survey platform built on Farcaster.

Portfolio

Freeport, Co-founder & CEO.
A next generation on-chain platform for collecting tokenized fine art. Users are able to invest in historic pieces at affordable prices, then display them alongside their favorite NFTs in a virtual 3D gallery.

Featured in
Coindesk
Forbes
Axios
The Observer
Artnet
Artnews
NFTCulture
Apple Cash, Product Marketing
Led Apple Cash marketing, including strategy, partnerships & campaign execution. Oversaw growth between the first 50,000 and 50M+ users.

Apple Pay, Partner Marketing
Developed and executed large scale partner marketing campaigns with Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, & other NA card issuing banks.
Digital Partnerships
Managed new partnerships and developed co-marketing campaigns with Uber, McDonald’s, Apple Pay, Google Wallet & Samsung Pay. The goal: make Amex relevant to young people.

Consumer Card Marketing
Developed new marketing APIs to customize comms for Membership Rewards, Pay with Points, Amex Offers and other benefit programs.
Observer. The authorities transforming art as an asset class.
Indivisible. The Revolution Will be Fractionalized
Rocket Science. A personal interview focused on Freeport.
She’s All Over the Place. Andy Warhol’s art on the Blockchain
Chasing the Insights. Web2.5 and Freeport
CGNTV. Art ownership for all.
So you’re making a security token. A how-to video for making security tokens, by me.
The arc of finance bends towards efficiency
Part one of a three part series describing why value should be moved onto blockchains.

The slime mold theory of DeFi
Part two, describing the existing decentralized structures and how they can be used for good.

Ownership for all
Part three, describing how this will impact humanity - and why it made sense for Freeport to be on chain.

Quora
What it was like growing up in Trenton, NJ
Angel Protocol. A web3 philanthropy protocol dedicated to bringing DeFi tools to nonprofits. I led the Restore Earth campaign, raising $1.5M for three different charities to combat climate change.

Surveycaster. Co creator of @survey, a bot designed to generate weekly survey questions that tap into the pulse of Farcaster. Results are then published for the benefit of all.

Purple DAO, Member #7. A public goods DAO dedicated to proliferating the Farcaster ecosystem.