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Jason Cohen

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, WP Engine · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jason Cohen is the founder and Chief Innovation Officer at WP Engine. He also founded SmartBear Software and writes the startup blog A Smart Bear.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 8 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jason argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Cohen: SmartBear sold for $2B in 2020 at 50% profit margin
“It was sold in 2020 for two billion and it doesn't have a thousand employees. It's super profitable. Like it was publicly said then what the profits were. It's 50% bottom line of profit.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 1:07 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jason Cohen on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jason Cohen said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Cohen: Founders should accept acquisition offers that cross their financial freedom line
“This is why when you get offered some money to sell the company, it's often a good idea to take it. Of course it could be big in the future, but if you haven't crossed over to this life-changing amount of money yet, what I was in that post called the freedom l…”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 17:30 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Cohen: Expected value is the wrong way to evaluate startup acquisition offers
“Now what's interesting with the box game is if you're a statistician or you're an economist, what you would say is there's no difference between the two boxes because the expected value of both box is ten million. So they're the same. And my point is, no, they…”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 17:51 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Opinion
Cohen: Achieving a Truly Rich US Lifestyle Requires Roughly $20M
“I think nowadays it's much more clear that you need something like twenty million. This is all in the US, by the way, to have what would be considered to be like a rich lifestyle in America.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 21:08 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Cohen: Neither consumers nor business buyers truly value saving time
“Consumers really don't value their time. But even in business, that's true.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 34:12 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Cohen: Framing products around value creation yields an order of magnitude higher pricing
“Saving money, saving time. It's not a bad proposition, but often the same product can be shown to generate value instead of saving time. And all of a sudden it's literally an order of magnitude more valuable.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 35:33 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Assertion Supported
Cohen: SmartBear sold for $2B in 2020 at 50% profit margin
“It was sold in 2020 for two billion and it doesn't have a thousand employees. It's super profitable. Like it was publicly said then what the profits were. It's 50% bottom line of profit.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 1:07 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Cohen: Slide Titles Must State Key Takeaways, Not Descriptive Labels
“People will say they'll, they'll use the title to label what is on the page, which is usually not useful because I can see what's on the page. It should be the message you want them to take from that one slide. That should be the title. So it shouldn't say our…”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 9:08 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Cohen: Startups succeed by having one or two exceptionally compelling strengths
“Everything's screwed up. Okay. Different ways, different levels of screwed up. Sure. But everything's screwed up. And if there's those one or two things that are just so compelling, whether it's delighting people are so useful or it's built into their workflow…”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 27:20 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Jason Cohen: Actions required for PMF are the wrong actions when scaling
“And the things that got you to product markets that are the wrong actions to take when you scale, you're like, all I'm doing is experimenting. Not when you scale, you know what to do. Now you need to do more of it. You need specialists in it.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 31:27 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Insight
Jason Cohen: When raising venture capital, the individual partner matters most
“A lot of times people are like, should I raise money from X where X is some venture firm? And the answer is always who at X, because the firm is, is there is something, because there's a culture and there's an attitude. It's not nothing. It's not nothing. But …”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 39:59 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: All WP Engine Employees Were Allowed in Secondary Share Sales
“So at this point at WP engine, also we've had a few secondary rounds, which by the way, all employees got to participate in as well.”
Jason Cohen Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 20:20 This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It

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Appearances (1)

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This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It Feb 23, 2024 20m
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