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Joshua D. Tobkin puts a price on being right
A whitepaper club in San Francisco became a research lab in Taipei, then Supra. Joshua D. Tobkin’s path runs through poker, blockchain design, and a personal token bounty for anyone who could beat his team’s execution engine.
Doug Sechrist Has Spent 25 Years Counting What Buyers Do. Now He Wants to Decode Why.
After three IPOs, five acquisition exits and a career spent making funnels predictable, the Consensus CMO is betting that B2B’s next useful metric is buyer momentum.
Eric Olson
Eric Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Consensus, an AI search engine that pulls evidence-based answers out of more than 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers. A former Northwestern University offensive lineman who became a data scientist at DraftKings, Olson built Consensus with his college teammate Christian Salem so that ordinary people would not feel like outsiders to science. The company launched publicly in 2022 and raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024 led by Union Square Ventures, with backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.