Jason Goldberg (entrepreneur)
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Jason Goldberg is an American internet entrepreneur. He serves as the Founder and CEO of e-commerce sites Fab[1] and Hem.[2] He is from Rockville, Maryland.[3]
Education
Goldberg graduated from Emory University in 1993.[3] In 2001, he received an MBA from Stanford Business School.[4]
Career
Goldberg left Emory University to work for the White House in the Cabinet Affairs office before pivoting to work for Erskine Bowles, President Clinton’s chief of staff.[4] He then left politics for technology, developing digital strategies for AOL Time Warner and T-Mobile.[4] In 2004, he founded Jobster, a job search engine that pivoted into a site to manage employee referrals.[5] The site was a rival to LinkedIn.[6] He sold the company in 2006.[7]
Goldberg launched Socialmedian in 2008, a social news aggregator, which he later sold to XING.[4][5]
In 2011, he launched Fabulis, a gay social network.[7]
Soon after, he pivoted the business to become a flash-sale furniture site and changed the name to Fab.[7] Its focus was to aggregate designer products into one online marketplace.[5]
Goldberg’s latest venture is a pivot on Fab. He is now the Founder and CEO of Hem, a furniture manufacturing company that doubles as an e-commerce site.[8]
Personal life
In August 2012, Goldberg married his boyfriend Christian Friedhelm Schoenherr in New York.[9]
References
- ↑ "Fab Team". Fab. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Hem Contact". Hem. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- 1 2 "Making Everyone More "Fabulis"". Mark’s List. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "The Former White House Aide Who Founded Fab Dot Com". BusinessWeek. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "How High Can Fab Climb?". FastCompany. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?". The Verge. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Fab CEO Has A Long History Of Mistakes". Business Insider. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Fab's CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting the Next 20 Years". Re/Code. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Christian Schoenherr, Jason Goldberg". New York Times.