JB

John Brennan

Data at Consensys

Los Angeles, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Head of Data & Analytics Engineering

    2021 - Current

    Consensys is building a complete suite of products to create and participate in web3 including the leading self-custodial wallet (MetaMask), development tools and node infra (Infura), and an EVM equivalent zkEVM rollup (Linea). Our team manages multi-cloud infra to deliver analytics, on-chain data, and insights across the business. We work across all products and departments, and invest significant time and resources towards many in-house solutions focused on user choice and preserving privacy in web3.

  • Co-Lead/Head of Product, Coven VC DAO

    2018 - 2021

    Experimenting with DAO structures to coordinate venture capital. We built one of the first "Decentralized Venture Capital Funds" using crypto economic incentives to facilitate the collaborative sourcing, diligencing, and approval of early stage venture capital investments. Generated >2x cash-on cash returns in aggregate in less than 3 years, driven by investments in companies like Bison Trails, Relay Payments, and Axie Infinity, with a TVPI of ~5x.

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2018 - 2018

    tinker and support

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2020

    Investing at the pre-seed and seed stage, focusing on B2B software and marketplace, digital health and FinTech

  • Senior Director of Product Management (vi acq)

    2013 - 2015

    Rebranded BuzzTable to CAKE as Sysco subsidiary. Led product teams across enterprise and consumer initiatives to develop a cohesive b2b2c strategy for Sysco's 400,000 restaurant customers.

  • Co-Founder, President & CTO

    2011 - 2015

    Restaurant OS and CRM. Acquired by Sysco (NYSE: SYY) rebranded to Cake

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2009 - 2011

    Mapping software on top of gmaps

  • Lifetime Learner/Tinkerer

    1997 - 2011

    Products I've built: Pancake (2017) Home sharing via private networks. Designed UX/Built in React Native. Early (lack of) engagement and match making suggested it wasn't worth the opportunity cost of my time. TravelCo (2017) Auto-generated photo forward itineraries based on your phone's camera. Good reason to learn React Native and write some native bridges. Wanderfoot (2008-09) Visual discovery tool for architects and their clients. Library of 25K+ high quality images. Pinterest before Pinterest. Global Financial Crisis closed many architecture firms (that were our customers), so when they closed shop so did we. 99circles (2005-06) One of many social networking startups you've never heard of. The power of (lack of) network effects. Menuocity (2002-06) Online food & delivery service on college campuses. Knew nothing about sales or GTM. Executed the right strategy in the wrong market. Bandindex, acquired privately on eBay (1997-2002) One of the first music discovery tools on the Internet in the early 2000s. Got to meet/interview many of my favorite artists at the time. Best part was the reaction when they realized they were being interviewed by a 15 year old. Used the cash to purchase my first car — nothing left over.

  • Software Engineer/Project Lead

    2006 - 2009

    Built a web-based, collaboration app for intelligence analysts at several 3 letter acronym agencies.

  • Program Manager

    2004 - 2005

    Worked on RSS strategy and implementation for Office Online as a 2x intern. Got to play in their state-of-the-art usability rooms to test the new Office 2007 product.

Education

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