Jason Shellen
Jason Harper Shellen (born August 30, 1973) is an American internet entrepreneur who was the founding product manager of Google Reader and helped create and launch Brizzly. His most recent software startup is the email app Boxer. He has since 2006 been a member of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the RSS specification and helps developers with web syndication.
Jason Shellen | |
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Shellen (2007) | |
| Born | Jason Harper Shellen August 30, 1973 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Saint Mary's College of California (BA) |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
| Known for | Blogger, Google Reader, Brizzly |
Shellen joined Google in 2003 when the company acquired Pyra Labs, which developed the Blogger blogging platform. He left Google four years later and became the vice president of product development of LiveJournal.
In 2008, Shellen created Thing Labs which was acquired by AOL in 2010 to bolster their AIM Messaging division. Having left AOL, Shellen advises startups in Silicon Valley. In October 2014 he was named as one of the investors in the Internet startup Delighted, which collects and analyzes customer feedback for businesses.
Shellen was the head of product platform efforts at Slack in 2016, leaving the company in December that same year. In 2018, Shellen announced that he had purchased Brizzly back.