Doug von Kohorn | Head of Product, Founder

Most recently, Doug built Threshold Network for Thesis. It is a fully decentralized bridge that tokenizes and secures BTC for use in Ethereum and broader DeFi. The project is called tBTC and has over $200 Million in secured Bitcoin. Think WBTC but fully private, transparent, and sovereign.

Prior to his current position, Doug von Kohorn was the co-founder and CEO of Rhombus, a blockchain technology company that securely tethers real-world data to blockchain applications. Rhombus was acquired by Chainlink.

Doug has been an entrepreneur and operator for over a decade. Before founding Rhombus, he was founder and CTO of v2 Ratings, a quantitative investment data service, sold to Xynon Inc. He has built several companies centered around finance, governance, and machine learning. He was Director of Engineering at Collective Decision Engines, a quadratic voting survey company he built with Kevin Slavin, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl.

In addition to Rhombus and v2 Ratings, Doug has previously sold two other companies. One was a software consultancy in New York that invented an entirely new process around envisioning and building startups. The second was a job placement tool and marketplace that leveraged positive psychology to place candidates in their ideal jobs.

Doug received his B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.