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Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

What’s broken in commercializing science?

“Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living…

Nov 27, 2023

What’s broken in commercializing science?

Nov 27, 2023

Mark Johnson

Experiments with grant-making in web3

Stand Together is launching two experiments in using web3 to create a framework for bottom-up grant-making.

Sep 14, 2022

Experiments with grant-making in web3

Sep 14, 2022

Mark Johnson

Meditations: A Requiem for Descartes Labs

Thoughts from the founding CEO of Descartes Labs after its exit in 2022.

Aug 4, 2022

Meditations: A Requiem for Descartes Labs

Aug 4, 2022

Mark Johnson

Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.

Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.

Feb 23, 2022

Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.

Feb 23, 2022

Mark Johnson

Moving from .com to .org

This week, I joined Stand Together, a philanthropic community, as their inaugural CTO.

Feb 10, 2022

Moving from .com to .org

Feb 10, 2022

Mark Johnson

Bayer+Microsoft: A digital platform for agriculture?

Plus thoughts on FBN and Growmark+CHS

Nov 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021

Mark Johnson

The Day the Grain Marketplace Died

Grain marketplaces were supposed to disrupt the grain industry, but have failed for two decades. Maybe it’s time to rethink the strategy.

Oct 12, 2021

The Day the Grain Marketplace Died

Oct 12, 2021

Mark Johnson

Lessons from building an agricultural data refinery

GrainBridge released our first data feature last quarter on top of a data refinery. Here are some lessons we learned.

Jul 20, 2021

Lessons from building an agricultural data refinery

Jul 20, 2021

Mark Johnson

How GrainBridge became a product development machine

Reflection after 1 year at the helm of GrainBridge about how the company was able to ship product.

May 9, 2021

How GrainBridge became a product development machine

May 9, 2021

Mark Johnson

Researching Carbon in Agriculture :: Sequestration & Marketplaces

Carbon sequestration is a hot topic in agriculture. This post presents a thesis on why and what research needs to be done.

Apr 8, 2021

Researching Carbon in Agriculture :: Sequestration & Marketplaces

Apr 8, 2021

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

CTO of Stand Together. Former CEO of GrainBridge, Co-founder of Descartes Labs, CEO of Zite. Love product, philosophy, data refineries, and models.

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