Jason Cohen

About Jason Cohen

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 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

1. Founder, Chief Innovation Officer

   WP Engine

   Feb 2010 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   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 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.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Computer Science

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Saas
• Linux
• Software Product Management
• Php
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Xml
• Start-Ups
• Web Development
• User Experience
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Outsourcing
• Ruby
• Strategic Partnerships
• Cloud Computing
• Javascript
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Mobile Applications
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Design
• Apache
• Consulting
• Wordpress
• Entrepreneurship
• Objective-C
• Web Applications
• Enterprise Software
• Web Services
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Software Engineering
• Ruby on Rails
• Business Strategy
• Mobile Devices
• Software Project Management
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Wisdom