Jason Goldberg (entrepreneur)
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.[4] In 2001, he received an MBA from Stanford Business School.[5]
Career
Goldberg left Emory University to worked for the White House in the Cabinet Affairs office before pivoting to work for Erskine Bowles, President Clinton’s chief of staff.[6] He then left politics for technology, developing digital strategies for AOL Time Warner and T-Mobile.[7] In 2004, he founded Jobster, a job search engine[8] that pivoted into a site to manage employee referrals. The site was a rival to LinkedIn.[9] He sold the company in 2006.[10]
Goldberg launched Socialmedian in 2008, a social news aggregator,[11] which he later sold to XING.[12]
In 2011, he launched Fabulis, a gay social network.[13]
Soonafter, he pivoted the business to become a flash-sale furniture site and changed the name to Fab.[14] Its focus was to aggregate designer products into one online marketplace.[15]
Goldberg’s latest venture is another iteration on Fab. He is now the Founder and CEO of Hem, a furniture manufacturing company that doubles as an e-commerce site.[16]