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Justin Lokitz

Founding Member at Crest Collective

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

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Crest Collective

  • Founding Member

    2024 - Current

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Makee

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2023

    Co-founded with other badasses that I've been dreaming about working with for a long time, Makee is the first-of-its-kind mobile app that uses generative AI and a conversational interface to enable users to create funny images, GIFs, and memes to share with their friends, while also incorporating an entirely new way to generate revenue from virtual product placement. We’re building Giphy for the genAI generation!

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Plantfully Systems

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020

    Developed to help you outperform everyone, every day. At Plantfully Systems we formulate plant-based supplements to enable you to elevate your game no matter what you want to achieve. We use natural ingredients and formulas that are scientifically proven to enhance your body’s ability to run faster, jump higher, think quickly, sleep deeply, and just work better.

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California College of the Arts

  • Professor & Chair of the MBA in Design Strategy Program

    2020

    At California College of the Arts, I teach a graduate-level (MBA) course called Business Models & Stakeholders. This course focuses on design-led innovation from a business (and business model) perspective. I am also the Acting Chair of the DMBA program.

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Hatchet Ventures 🪓

  • Strategic Advisor

    2023

    Hatchet Ventures is a community-led advisory network dedicated to helping underestimated founders secure resources and exposure. As a startup advisor, I work with founders who are generally left out of the equation in Silicon Valley, helping them design sustainable businesses.

SOCIAL GOOD LABS

  • Board Member

    2020

    At SGL, we help nonprofits and mission-driven startups launch and grow. Our mission is to leverage technology, nonprofit expertise, and digital strategies to help others make the world a better place. We offer fiscal sponsorship and strategic support to people and projects that align with our mission.

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Catalyst Constellations

  • Advisory Board Member

    2019

    The world needs Catalysts who create bold and powerful change in the world. We’re devoted to educating, coaching, and connecting Catalysts, so they can create their dream impact.

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Berkeley SkyDeck

  • Advisor

    2018

    As a SkyAdvisor at SkyDeck, UC Berkeley's largest accelerator, I help startups with their value propositions, business models, and strategies.

Wiley Publishing, Inc.

  • Author: Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation

    2016

    My book, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before, guiding readers (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world. http://designabetterbusiness.com

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Vansmith

  • Strategic Advisor and Board Member

    2018 - 2023

    At Vansmith, we provide people who seek adventure and the freedom of the open road, with the tools, services, products, and knowledge to do so. As a strategic advisor and board member, I help to design the future of Vansmith with the amazing core team. Next stop...the world.

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