Jon Brodsky
Founder at Hopara
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Brodsky is a seasoned founder and digital media executive with a track record of scaling consumer internet businesses—from leading YouNow’s global livestreaming platform to growing 1-800-flowers’ international revenue by roughly $300M. He’s held CEO and senior product/CTO-equivalent roles (Finder USA, Chicken Soup for the Soul) where he drove product, content, and digital monetization strategies that reached hundreds of millions of views and users. Jon blends operator experience in M&A and corporate development with hands-on startup building, having co-founded early ventures like AllMenus and Bookspoke and worked in private equity early in his career. Based in Traverse City, he balances strategic leadership with a maker’s mindset—currently sketching ideas at Hopara while taking downtime to snowboard and ski. He’s a published writer and former top Quora contributor, comfortable communicating complex digital strategies to broad audiences. Collected experience across product, growth, and acquisitions gives him a rare ability to connect engineering, content, and commercial outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Rumsey Hall SchoolHS, HS at Choate Rosemary HallBA, Economics, Math, History, BA, Economics, Math, History at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
solidity8
polygon8
ethereum7
smart-contracts6
blockchain6
transaction4
cli2
golang1
openzeppelin1
go-application1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
propsproject/propskit-js
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
Library to interact with the props sawtooth blockchain
Contributions:57 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
blockchain
propsproject/props-token-distribution
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:155 commits, 7 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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