John Brennan

About

⚙️ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Builder of Products // 🤚 🌎 ‏‏‎ ‎Participant in Crypto Networks // 💵 ‏‏‎ ‎Supporter of Entrepreneurs 𝙉𝙤𝙬: 7 years in blockchain and digital assets space working on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), token economic models, DeFi, key management, protocol research, and privacy. Currently improving the product experience to onboard the next 100M users to decentralized networks (web3). I also advise and invest both individually (web3) and through Indicator Ventures (web2). 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩: Founded and sold restaurant tech company, BuzzTable to Sysco (NYSE:SYY) after surpassing 100 million guests. Made lifelong friends on the journey. Never stop improving the mind, body and world around you

Experience

• ConsenSys (8 yrs 6 mos)
  • Head of Data
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

    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
    Mar 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    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
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 · 9 mos

    tinker and support

• Venture Partner at Indicator Ventures
  2015 - 2020 · 5 yrs

  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) at CAKE Corporation
  2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs

  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 at BuzzTable (acquired by Sysco)
  2011 - 2015 · 4 yrs

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

• Co-Founder, CEO at OpenAction (acquired)
  2009 - 2011 · 2 yrs

  Mapping software on top of gmaps