Ben Jackson, whose résumé comprises work at Vice Media and the brand new York occasions, is launching a startup advisory agency known as For The Win.
Jackson was once most lately Vice’s director of mobile apps, the place he said he created a crew that constructed nine apps all the way through his tenure, in addition to the corporate’s first unified content material API. He’s additionally worked on the iOS lead at Longform and as a cell device engineer on the times — he even wrote for TechCrunch Editor in Chief Matthew Panzarino, back when Matthew used to be on the next internet.
Jackson mentioned For The Win will work with startups in a variety of capacities — that includes advising them on design and know-how, however additionally providing government training and serving to on the operations aspect. as an example, considered one of his clients is advertising company Spherical, the place he said one of the key insights was “the wish to build a higher relationship between the ops-focused Managing Director and the CEO, who spends extra time on strategic imaginative and prescient.”
He’s also working with Swing Left, the place he’s helping the volunteer network (which is fascinated by defeating Republicans in the house of Representatives) make stronger how groups are collaborating.
“At VICE, Longform, and the brand new York occasions, I used to be in a position to influence the lives of tens of millions of individuals by means of helping to form how they got their information as a developer and engineering leader,” Jackson informed me by means of electronic mail. “I’d prefer to have a good greater affect on an excellent greater selection of folks. Advising executives on strategy and making teams more effective is a pure next step.”
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