Jason Goldberg is an American internet entrepreneur. He is currently the Director and CEO of Simple Token and CEO o
Pepo
Prior to this, he served as the Co-founder and CEO of e-commerce sites Fab and Hem.

Early life and education

Goldberg is from Rockville,

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

. He graduated from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

in 1993. In 2001, he received an MBA from

Stanford Business School The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

Career

Goldberg left Emory University to work for

the White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 180 ...

in the Office of Cabinet Affairs and then worked for

Erskine Bowles Erskine Boyce Bowles (born August 8, 1945) is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the president of the University of North Carolina system. In 1997–98 he served as White House Chi ...

, the chief of staff for US President

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

. He left politics for technology, developing digital strategies for

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and

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic ( T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland ( T-Mobile Polska), the United States (T-Mobil ...

. In 2004, he founded Jobster, a job search engine that pivoted into a site to manage employee referrals. The site was a rival to

LinkedIn LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job se ...

. The company went through two "pivots" and was sold in 2006 for a fraction of its former value. Goldberg launched Socialmedian in 2008, a social news aggregator, which he later sold to XING. In 2011, he launched Fabulis, a gay social network, with

Bradford Shellhammer Bradford Shane Shellhammer (born 1976) is an American entrepreneur and designer who co-founded the e-commerce companies Fab and Bezar. Shellhammer was an admissions counselor at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum and part-time ...

. Soon after, he pivoted the business to become a flash-sale furniture site and changed the name to Fab. Its focus was to aggregate designer products into one online marketplace. In 2014, Goldberg launched Hem, a furniture manufacturing company that doubles as an e-commerce site. In 2016, Goldberg launched Pepo, a social media app that connects users with experts in live messaging communities on various topics. In 2017, Goldberg created Simple Token to bridge cryptocurrencies and mainstream consumer apps. Simple Token is a blockchain protocol for consumer companies to easily launch their own tokens, without the need to create and maintain new blockchains and token ecosystems. Goldberg came up with the idea for Simple Token when attempting to tokenize his social media app, Pepo. Pepo's development team found that the tokenization process was much more costly and complex than they had anticipated. From this, Goldberg began creating a technology that allows small to mid-size consumer companies to put part of their business onto a blockchain and tokenize without complex development requirements. Simple Token was set to launch a public token sale on November 14, 2017.

Personal life

In August 2012, Goldberg married his boyfriend Christian Friedhelm Schoenherr in New York. Goldberg and his colleague Shellhammer served as

best man A groomsman or usher is one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony and performs the first speech at the wedding. Usually, the groom selects close friends and relatives to serve as groomsmen, and it is considered an honor to be ...

at each other's weddings.

References

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