#JohnMastodon was born Juan Mastodón Torresmochas in East Palo Alto. He was the first person in his family to go to college (San José State). Juan graduated summa cum laude and went to work at various unicorn startups across Silicon Valley, where folks insisted on calling him John.

After a successful decade, he grew disillusioned with the rat race and began work on his radical vision of a distributed social network. His current location is unknown.