Jason Cohen

Founder

Austin, Texas, United States32 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded four successful technology startups.
Achieved over $1M annual revenue in multiple ventures.
Expert in SaaS and software product management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in software development and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

SaasEntrepreneurshipCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentManagementFirmware Development

Other Skills

Software Product ManagementBusiness StrategyWeb DevelopmentAgile Project ManagementTeam ManagementConsultingE-commerceScrumJavaScriptStart-upsAgile MethodologiesStrategic PartnershipsRuby on RailsLinuxSoftware Project Management

About

Built four technology startups, both bootstrapped and funded, both alone and with co-founders, all to more than $1M in annual revenue, sold two, currently at the fourth, https://WPEngine.com, with 200,000 customers and 1200 global employees. Since 2009 I've also been an angel investor and was a founding member of Capital Factory, an Austin incubator and co-working space. I've been writing since 2007 about early-stage startups at https://longform.asmartbear.com.

Experience

32 yrs

Total Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

16 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Wp engine

Founder, Chief Innovation Officer

Feb 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

The 6th-largest public website platform used by the largest ten million websites, as the leading managed WordPress platform and WordPress developer tools company, serving billions of requests per day for 170,000 customers. Our 1200 employees are devoted to world-class customer service (NPS 74) and the most sophisticated infrastructure for scalable, secure, performant WordPress-powered websites.

SaaSSoftware Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyCloud ComputingWeb Development+3

Capital thought

Partner

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 4 mos

Managing incubated companies and works for hire.
Balancing big ideas with changing the pellets in the urinals. Nimitz-class cat herding.

Capital factory

Mentor

Jun 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 11 mos

Capital Factory is a seed-stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Startup companies apply to participate in our 10 week summer program intended to get a startup pointed in the right direction with a clear path to profitability and growth.

Geist manufacturing

Project Consultant

Jul 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr

After ITWatchdogs (below) was sold to Geist, I stayed on as a part-part-time project consultant for the product line I helped create.

Itwatchdogs

Co-Founder, CTO

Oct 2003 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

Designed and developed firmware for ARM7 devices for multiple product lines. Grew to 3-man team.
ITWatchdogs was sold to Geist Manufacturing in July 2005 but still operates under its own name.
Devices measure server room environments (temp, humidity, air flow, light, sound, power, water, door position) with both internal and external sensors, showing current and historical data through HTTP, SNMP and alarming through SMTP and SNMP.
http://itwatchdogs.com

Datacert

Consultant

Jun 2003 – Oct 2003 · 4 mos

Lead 2-man team to implement a web-based reporting system for DataCert's AIMS software in record time. Managed remote development.
http://datacert.com

Firmware DevelopmentTeam Management

Smart bear inc

Founder, CEO

Feb 2003 – Jul 2009 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Developer, salesman, manager, advertiser, visionary, evangelist, and chief executive changer of the toilet paper.
Smart Bear makes Code Collaborator (http://codecollab.com) -- the only professional-grade peer code review tool on the market and winner of the Jolt Award. I also wrote the only book on lightweight peer code review technique (http://codereviewbook.com).
Customers include: Adobe, AOL, Autodesk, Cisco, Cognos, EA Sports, Intuit, Ixia, Pfizer, RIM (Blackberry), Northrup Grumman, Seagate, Siemens, SONIC, and Qualcomm.
Smart Bear was acquired by AutomatedQA in December of 2007; the parent company was later renamed to Smart Bear.

Software DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipManagement

Sheer genius software

CTO, co-founder

Apr 1999 – Jun 2003 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Grew consulting shop to six employees with seven-figure contracts with public companies. Lead team to design and implement tools now installed on tens of thousands of desktops. Managed remote development.

Globeset

Consultant

Nov 1998 – Apr 1999 · 5 mos

Refactored development techniques for the eWallet division

Photodex

Developer

Aug 1995 – Nov 1998 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Ported 750,000 lines of Windows GUI code to Macintosh, Linux, *BSD, and Solaris by creating a Windows API emulation layer so future changes to the Windows base were reflected automatically in the other versions. Implemented several new features in the core product line. Optimized graphics routines in C and x86 assembly.
http://photodex.com