Derek Brown is a founder and CEO who built American Spend, an onchain consumer-commerce data and information-markets company focused on modeling the American economy in real time. Derek Brown's Twitter Score is 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #14,498 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Derek Brown founded American Spend after earlier roles in product and engineering. He previously worked at Addepar as VP of Product Development and at LinkedIn as an Engineering Lead. He also co-founded Bunches, a group-chat startup that was subsequently wound down and its app discontinued, and served as CEO of Exeq until its acquisition in 2019.
Derek Brown is affiliated with Arbitrum. American Spend's core infrastructure centers on three products: the Revere model, which ingests 3.7 billion transactions per month to build a real-time picture of American commerce; Spend Market, an information market that resolves against verified consumer-spending data; and Knox Prime, which offers programmatic market access with onchain settlement. Derek Brown has published 24,352 posts on the platform.
Derek Brown has been mentioned by 33 accounts, with 135 total mentions.
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