Jason C. Braatz

Jason holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and in Computer Science from two highly acclaimed California Universities, and began his path in the start-up world of Silicon Valley. He spent 15 years becoming both a best friend and a pincushion to nearly every private equity and venture capitalist he had the pleasure of meeting. He's held VP, SVP and C-level positions in not just start-up ventures, but in public companies as well [NASDAQ:CERN, NASDAQ:FISRV, NASDAQ:CA ].

In addition to being an author, Jason owns several ongoing businesses and have purchased and sold dozens of them of all sizes throughout the last 20 years. He's a call-upon consultant for companies in San Francisco, New York, London, Kansas City, Paris and Boston. The companies who contact him for help range in size, between Enterprise to Start-up, Conglomerate to Mom-and-Pop. He admires the ubiquity in their situations yet uniqueness of their size, allowing him to contribute and learn at the same time.

His heart was initially taken over by the data science behind business topics - measuring, running complex statistics from it, and harnessing patterns that only machine-ready logic could pick out. He now finds that it's displaced with his love of writing. Authorship isn't something that was ever far from his mind throughout the day.

Lastly, he enjoys the the humor of business. He points out that it's perhaps one of the most beautiful and paradoxically toxic things in the world. Jason believes that entrepreneurship may be taught to anyone, but true long term business growth and sustainability must center around needing to be with, or ahead of, changes. This means that what is worthless today may become something that is worth a substantial amount tomorrow. This is why he calls it the humor of business - it's God's way of asking: could humans build a business so big that not even they could lift it?