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Jason Lemkin

Jason Lemkin

Jason Lemkin is an American entrepreneur and Investor whose passion and field of expertise is in Software as a service. He resides in Palo Alto, California. [1]

Education

Lemkin received his undergraduate degree and Harvard University in 1991 and earned his law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law five years later. In 2002, Lemkin completed the executive management program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [1]

Career

After a career in the corporate world working in upper managements for companies such as BabyCenter, NeoPhotonics, and cofounding NanoGram Devices, Lemkin was a co-founder of EchoSign in 2005 which he later sold to Adobe Systems six years later. [1]

Today, Lemkin is the managing director of the SaaStr Fund which has more than $70 million in capital at its disposal.

Collectively, the startups that the fund has invested in have grown to be worth over $1.5 billion, with an average entry price of $13m per investment, in less than three years.

In addition, Lemkin is a Trusted Advisor at SaaStr.com which helps over 100,000 people involved in the field of SaaS with insight, advice, and tips on how to make their ventures succeed.

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Accolades

Lemkin has been listed as one of Quora's top writers and his website Saastr has been listed in Forbes top 100 websites for entrepreneurs. [1]

References

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Citation Linklinkedin.comJason on LinkedIn.
Jan 26, 2017, 7:40 AM
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Citation Linkeveripedia-storage.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.comJason
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Citation Linkquora.comJason Lemkin on Quora
Jan 26, 2017, 10:35 PM
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Citation Linkamazon.comJason's Book " From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue"
Jan 26, 2017, 10:37 PM
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Citation Linkeveripedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.comJason Lemkin speaking at an event
Jan 26, 2017, 10:49 PM
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Citation Linktwitter.comJason Lemkin on Twitter.
Jan 26, 2017, 7:37 AM