Unlocking a new economy
Freehold aims to expand the world’s wealth by enabling people to work on things they believe in.
Meet the team behind Freehold
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Patrick Stanley
Founder, CEO
Patrick Stanley was previously the Head of Growth at Stacks. He studied Economics and Psychology at Johns Hopkins, and was the first employee at a16z-backed lending startup Earnest which sold for $155m in 2017.
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Kristen Wagner
Operations Program Manager
Kristen started out managing augmented reality and artificial intelligence studies at Microsoft. Since then she has served as a privacy & security consultant for major companies around the world. In an operational role, it's been said she could launch a rocket with just a spreadsheet and some webhooks.
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Jason Schrader
DevOps Engineer
Jason is an engineer, open source advocate, and Stacks ecosystem community member. He previously owned a global IT company, and enjoys work on governance and side projects within the Stacks ecosystem.