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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

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

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

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

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

Bayer+Microsoft: A digital platform for agriculture?

Plus thoughts on FBN and Growmark+CHS

Nov 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021

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

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

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

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

This Week in AgTech v1 on Clubhouse

Notes from a conversation on Clubhouse on AgTech, with a focus on the Farmers Edge IPO and the Indigo Ag layoffs.

Feb 12, 2021

This Week in AgTech v1 on Clubhouse

Feb 12, 2021

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What Should Indigo AG and FBN Do With That Pile of Cash?

FBN and Indigo Ag collectively raised $610m of financing last week. With that money, perhaps they should consider making acquisitions.

Aug 11, 2020

What Should Indigo AG and FBN Do With That Pile of Cash?

Aug 11, 2020

Why hasn’t there been more progress in medical technology?

Software and hardware have made massive progress in the past few decades; why hasn’t biotech evolved along a similar scale?

Aug 3, 2020

Why hasn’t there been more progress in medical technology?

Aug 3, 2020

Why I decided to join GrainBridge as CEO

After trying to build a digital twin of the world at Descartes Labs in Santa Fe, I moved to Omaha to become CEO of GrainBridge.

Jul 6, 2020

Why I decided to join GrainBridge as CEO

Jul 6, 2020

Question Models, not Policy

We shut down society because of a model. How much do you know about the model governing your state?

Apr 28, 2020

Question Models, not Policy

Apr 28, 2020

Avoid Corona Road Trip to California

How to get to California when you don’t want to deal with the petri dish of international airports? A road trip, of course!

Mar 10, 2020

Avoid Corona Road Trip to California

Mar 10, 2020

New Adventures for a New Decade

In early January of this year, I passed on the reins of Descartes Labs to a new CEO. I’ll be recharging and figuring out what’s next.

Mar 4, 2020

New Adventures for a New Decade

Mar 4, 2020

Selling data products is the wrong business model for AI startups

Satellites and other earth data sources can help us better understand the planet. It’s encouraging to think that in an effort to track and…

Apr 12, 2019

Selling data products is the wrong business model for AI startups

Apr 12, 2019

Week 3 in SF: Life out of Balance

All of my healthy New Mexico habits have gone out the window.

Mar 29, 2019

Week 3 in SF: Life out of Balance

Mar 29, 2019

Week 2 in San Francisco: A City of Extremes

When I arrived in San Francisco last Sunday, the last rain fizzled out. Every morning, I woke up to the sun shining into my Airbnb on the…

Mar 21, 2019

Week 2 in San Francisco: A City of Extremes

Mar 21, 2019

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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