Jason Goldberg (entrepreneur)

Jason Goldberg

Jason Goldberg in 2014
Nationality American
Occupation Entrepreneur
Spouse(s) Christian Friedhelm Schoenherr (m. 2012)

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

  1. ↑ "Fab Team". Fab. Archived from the original on January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Hem Contact". Hem. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Making Everyone More "Fabulis"". Mark’s List. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "The Former White House Aide Who Founded Fab Dot Com". BusinessWeek. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "How High Can Fab Climb?". FastCompany. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?". The Verge. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 "Fab CEO Has A Long History Of Mistakes". Business Insider. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Fab’s CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting the Next 20 Years". Re/Code. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Christian Schoenherr, Jason Goldberg". New York Times.


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