John Emmons
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder at Project Wilbur
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Emmons is a founder and operator with 12 years of experience building and scaling mission-driven tech and consumer businesses, currently leading RaffleGives and Project Wilbur. He has a rare blend of early education roots and high-growth startup leadership, having moved from creating after-school programs to generating over $500M in gross revenue across roles at CafePress, Tilt (acquired by Airbnb), and multiple ventures. A strategic growth and fundraising specialist, John excels at turning pre-revenue ideas into funded, revenue-generating products spanning software, crowdfunding, manufacturing, and apparel. He also advises edtech and AI/ML initiatives, reflecting a sustained interest in learning technology and applied machine learning. Known for building cross-functional teams and pragmatic financial models, he combines operator grit with a systems-level view of go-to-market and product execution.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
History Political Science, History Political Science at California State University - East BayHistory, History at Foothill College
English
Github Skills (64)
face10
webcam10
r-package10
knitr10
rgb10
face-recognition9
literate-programming9
rmarkdown9
face-detection8
video-codec8
latex8
aws-lambda8
linux8
lambda8
r8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
excamera/salsify-results
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:203 commits, 157 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
jremmons/pyfakewebcam
Feb 2018 - May 2020
A library for writing RGB frames to a fake webcam device on Linux!
Contributions:35 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
webcamlinuxon-devicergb
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