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Oscar Godson

@oscargodson
Startups, design, tech, but mostly I eat spicy food.
Portland, OR

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About Me

CTO & Creative Director at @quin___ .

Former CTO of Vault (acquired by @acorns).

Alumni of @simple (RIP) and @yammer.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

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beta testing new products,

joining company boards,

participating in user research,

brainstorming,

content creation,

speaking at events,

giving resume feedback,

and speaking on podcasts.

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Oct 2015 - Present

Partner & Co-founder, Bickford+Godson

Jan 2021 - Present

CTO & Creative Director, Quin

Nov 2017 - May 2020

Director of Engineering, Acorns

Jan 2016 - Nov 2017

CTO, Vault Investments (acquired by Acorns)

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Vault was put into the Acorns tech stack and we rebranded as Acorns Later. Within the first month we ended up getting 100,00 sign ups 🥵 🚀 https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/acorns-hits-3-5-million-u... At Vault, we were acquired Nov 7th, 2017 by Acorns 🎉 We ended up taking our codebase (codenamed Plutus for god of abundance or wealth) and relaunched Vault within Acorns' app as "Later". https://te... Bickford+Godson joined Will Rose and Bryan Adler to build Quin as a founding team member: https://helloquin.com We're on a mission to outsource your financial stress and bring financial peace of mi... Vault made it as a finalist and won people's choice. We also were a wildcard winner. We truly came up as an underdog to the competition and made it to the stage. We also launched Vault there, I mad...