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Colin Johnson
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Colin Johnson
Contact
Nf.td/Colin
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Nf.td/Colin

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.