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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…

12 min readNov 27, 2023

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Experiments with grant-making in web3

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

7 min readSep 14, 2022

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Experiments with grant-making in web3

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Meditations: A Requiem for Descartes Labs

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

21 min readAug 4, 2022

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

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

7 min readFeb 23, 2022

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Moving from .com to .org

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

3 min readFeb 10, 2022

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Moving from .com to .org

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Bayer+Microsoft: A digital platform for agriculture?

Plus thoughts on FBN and Growmark+CHS

3 min readNov 19, 2021

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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.

7 min readOct 12, 2021

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The Day the Grain Marketplace Died

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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.

7 min readJul 20, 2021

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Lessons from building an agricultural data refinery

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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.

5 min readMay 9, 2021

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How GrainBridge became a product development machine

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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.

6 min readApr 8, 2021

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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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