Jason Harper Shellen (born August 30, 1973) is an American

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who was the founding product manager of

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and helped create and launch Brizzly. His most recent software startup is the email app

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. He has since 2006 been a member of the

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, a group that publishes the

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specification and helps developers with web syndication. Shellen joined Google in 2003 when the company acquired

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, which developed the Blogger blogging platform. He left Google four years later and became the vice president of product development of

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. In 2008, Shellen created Thing Labs which was acquired by

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in 2010 to bolster their AIM Messaging division. Having left AOL, Shellen advises startups in Silicon Valley. In October 2014 he was named as one of the investors in the Internet startup Delighted, which collects and analyzes customer feedback for businesses. Shellen was the head of product platform efforts at Slack in 2016, leaving the company in December that same year. In 2018, Shellen announced that he had purchased Brizzly back.

Boxer email app

In 2013, Shellen launched

, an

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app for quickly reading, sorting and responding to email. Shellen described one of its selling points in a

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interview: "We're the only independent app that supports

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and

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. There are lots that do one or the other, but this is the only independent one that does both." Boxer was acquired by rival email app maker Taskbox in June 2013 and the latter company adopted the Boxer brand name. The combined company has 20 employees and is based in

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. It received $2.8 million in financing from 36 investors in October 2013. On 13 October 2015 Boxer has reported that

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has announced plans to acquire Boxer and integrate it as part of VMware's EMM solution AirWatch.

Personal life

Shellen received a bachelor of arts in fine art from Saint Mary’s College of California in 1996 and sits on the Board of Regents at Saint Mary's.

External links

Jason Shellen's weblog

References

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Boxer email app

Personal life

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