Jason Shellen
Early-stage product leader and strategist
Lafayette, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2019 - Current
Building fun and useful services around our passions. Find out about our product launches at: https://alittledrive.com - Find a face mask to protect yourself and others: https://alittleguide.co/guide/masks - Auto-delete your tweets with https://brizzly.com
Product Strategy Consultant
2020 - 2020
Working with the Twitter Developer Experience team this summer on a huge project to surface new ways for developers to bring improved experiences to Twitter users. Thank you to all Twitter Developers who reached out with great ideas during this engagement.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Co-Founder and VP of Product
2019 - 2019
Fable. Stories for everyone. Anywhere. Fable curates stories for a mobile-first experience that will allow you to read and share with private groups.
Fable provides a platform for online book clubs.
Raised $36,047,571.00 from Gaingels, Tiger Global Management, Bossanova Investimentos, Breyer Capital, Redpoint and Defy.vc.
Board Member, The Board of Regents
2012 - 2017
Advocate ardently for the College as an ambassadors and benefactor. Fundraising, community outreach, and help establish relationships with the greater business and tech community for the College.
Head of Product (Platform)
2016 - 2016
Slack is a messaging app for teams that is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Product
2015 - 2016
Lead a team of designers and engineers working to improve the actionability and usefulness of Pins. Recent projects have included speeding the delivery of content surfaced in our in-app browser by implementing the Google AMP spec and shipping a new modular system to improve comprehension by users.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.
Senior Expert Advisor
2013 - 2015
Advised the founding team on strategic initiatives, product strategy and key partnerships. Making Boxer even better! http://getboxer.com
Co-founder & VP of Product
2013 - 2013
Founded on the premise of making mobile email truly actionable, I began exploring new ways to turn simple gestures and canned responses as a way to deal with email on the go. Along the way, I merged the idea with an existing team in Austin, Texas. Together we built our first iOS version of Boxer, an alternate email client that quickly became a top app in the iTunes App Store. After leaving the team, I stayed on as an expert advisor as they created tablet and Android versions of Boxer. Boxer was sold to VMWare in October of 2015.
Advisor
2013 - 2015
Advised the founding team on strategic initiatives, product strategy, design, and key partnerships.
Founder & CEO
2014 - 2015
Started a small, mobile-focused development lab to explore a new idea around a mobile-first blogging app called Drafty. We kept the team small and iterated on the idea with a handful of beta testers. However, we were persuaded to sell our company to Pinterest and continued our mission there.
Advisor
2012 - 2014
Education
BA
1994 - 1996
Associate of Arts - AA
1991 - 1994