Kurt Johnson
CEO, Co-Founder at FreightPOP
Lake Forest, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Johnson is a veteran founder and CEO who has built six startups from a garage-origin PC refurbisher into a diversified technology group that reached $95M in revenue and produced multiple exits and acquisitions. He blends entrepreneurial rigor with Lean Startup and predictive analytics to incubate employee-driven businesses—five of his six ventures remain active and one evolved into FreightPOP, a fast-growing cloud logistics platform with 600+ carrier integrations. An EY Southwest Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, Kurt couples financial and actionable analytics with disciplined leadership development programs (including a mandatory ten-week leadership course and company-wide volunteer time). He is faith-driven, grounding culture and decision-making in Micah 6:8 and John 13:35, and is known for turning operational insight into repeatable, scalable business models.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (41)
git10
javascript10
github10
patch10
css10
subversion10
nodejs10
react10
math9
codebase9
virtual8
datepicker8
syntax8
certification8
react-component8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pompan129/You-Dont-Know-JS
Jan 2020 - May 2023
A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
javascriptbook-seriestwitter
UCD-DART/vectorsurv.org
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
VectorSurv.org website
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 7 months
markdown
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