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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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1 assertion · 3 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Cohen: Interacting with unbalanced follower-ratio accounts lowers Twitter reach
“Like if people have a follower to following ratio, that's really out of whack and you interact with them, it actually lowers your reputation and reach.”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 3:14 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter

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Everything Jason Cohen said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Cohen: Most social media growth advice lacks validated data backing
“I think the question of how to quote unquote, how to do social media well. I don't think is very data-based and you could potentially argue it's not possible to be data-based cause it's too complicated and there's too much that the noise of what happens online…”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 13:49 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Opinion
Cohen: Law firms are a low-probability niche for software startups
“I don't think lawyers are a good niche ever. Like the number of startups that try to do lawyers, like it's a very, very low probability success niche. It's just, they don't get tech. They don't like to spend money oddly because they have a lot of money.”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 25:32 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Opinion
Jason Cohen: SWOT analysis workshops are useless and produce no new insights
“And work and workshops like making a SWOT, which I think is useless. And my evidence of that is it's rare that you do a SWOT and come away with some kind of insight you didn't know before. And you, it's also rare to ever reference one again afterwards.”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 30:09 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Insight
Cohen: Expanding Markets Constantly Create Niches Too Small for Big Players
“And it also means niches will constantly be blooming because as it expands, like there's no way that the larger players can do a perfect job in all of the niches. That's just never true. And so there's opportunities for, again, if you don't want to make a bill…”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 1:42 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Assertion Contradicted
Cohen: Interacting with unbalanced follower-ratio accounts lowers Twitter reach
“Like if people have a follower to following ratio, that's really out of whack and you interact with them, it actually lowers your reputation and reach.”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 3:14 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Insight
Cohen: Upmarket software shifts create market voids for simple alternatives
“Segment was kind of like that at the beginning, and they ended up going upmarket. Often when that happens, a void is left behind because the original concept That was more for engineers and it was flexible and simple. That concept was still right. It's still r…”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 21:05 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Insight
Cohen: Standard customer testimonials no longer differentiate consulting agencies
“You don't have to be as popular as that to have good materials so that when you Are doing your sales calls in your ways. You have an edge over the next agency who just says, I do strategy. Here's three customers who are happy. You can call them. Yes. We all ha…”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 44:20 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter

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Appearances (1)

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$100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter Apr 24, 2024 32m
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