Join our virtual mentorship session with Jason Cohen, benefiting Austin Community Foundation's Stand With Austin Fund.
Jason is the founder and CTO of WP Engine (http://wpengine.com), the largest WordPress Digital Experience Platform serving 130,000 customers with 900 employees, both distributed and with major offices in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Australia. As a successful, repeat entrepreneur (Smart Bear, sold 2008; IT WatchDogs, sold 2004), Jason became a founding mentor and angel investor with Capital Factory in 2009. He has written about startups for the last decade at http://blog.asmartbear.com; Twitter is @asmartbear.
WP Engine
Founder/CTO
Jason has built four technology startups, both bootstrapped and funded, alone and with co-founders, all to more than $1m in annual revenue, sold two, currently serving as CTO of the fourth, http://WPEngine.com, with 450 employees in the US, UK, and Ireland.
Jason has built four technology startups, both bootstrapped and funded, alone and with co-founders, all to more than $1m in annual revenue, sold two, currently serving as CTO of the fourth, http://WPEngine.com, with 450 employees in the US, UK, and Ireland.
For six years he has also been an angel investor and was a founding member of Capital Factory, an Austin incubator and co-working space.
At $100M annual revenue, the largest Digital Experience Platform for WordPress, serving billions of requests per day for 75,000 customers. Our 500 employees are devoted to world-class customer service (NPS 70) and the most sophisticated infrastructure for scalable, secure, performant WordPress-powered websites.
Startup Grind
Chapter Director, Austin
H-E-B Digital
Austin Chapter Director
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