When Jason was 19, doctors told him he had Stage 2B Hodgkin's lymphoma.
He was in college at Northwestern, a Theatre major, more comfortable onstage than in a
doctor's office. He went through chemo and radiation and still finished school. Then
moved to Los Angeles instead of back to the East Coast, because playing it safe now
had a cost he could actually feel.
"Someday" stopped being a safe assumption that year. It never really came back.
That urgency turned into a professional pattern: find something worth building, figure
out where the real leverage sits, and go after the thing nobody else is paying attention
to yet. It took him through Hulu's early years, a co-founded company that
Facebook acquired, a stint building Live Shopping inside Meta as the
company's first Founder in Residence, and eventually the Interim CEO seat at
SuperBam during a genuine crisis.
None of those moves followed a strategy document. They followed a read on systems;
which ones were ready to break open, which ones needed someone to care more carefully
than the people already in charge. He's a high-context thinker who leads with
narrative first. That confuses people who want a slide deck before they want to
understand the problem. It works for almost everyone else.
In April 2025, he moved his family to the south of France. Not a sabbatical, not a
gesture; a restructuring of what a life looks like once you stop optimizing for someone
else's definition of success. He writes, advises, and builds from there. Kit and Ace are
the best evidence it's working.
