Jason Soll

Get to know Jason.

Jason coaches founders who are under immense pressure to perform at world-class levels. His clients long for high performance peace and are determined to accelerate their organizations’ growth upon a foundation of deeper, more integrated wellbeing.

Jason’s coaching is built upon his deep experience as an operator. He founded and was CEO of two technology companies: Cape, an autonomous drone company that raised over $20M and sold to Motorola, and Workshop, a career management company. He worked in venture capital as an EIR at XSeed Capital, and earlier in his career worked at Google and Udacity.

Jason has coached founders from over 100 companies at all stages of the startup journey, from pre-idea through leading publicly traded companies. Selected clients: Asana, Zoom, YouTube, DocuSign, Amazon, Apple, Golden State Warriors, Candle Media, PayJoy, Skydio, Masterclass, Jasper Ridge Partners, Tuesday Capital, Owl Ventures, Claremont McKenna College, and portfolio companies at YCombinator, StartX, and Techstars.

Location

Jason belongs to Pilea's
San Francisco Chapter

Booking

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meeting with Jason

Email

Feel free to email Jason at jasonssoll@gmail.com

  • Andrew Scheuermann, CEO & Cofounder, Arch Systems

    Jason is a special human, uniquely talented to be an incredible founder/startup exec coach. You come to him because he's been there and done that. He was a founder and startup leader, he was an investor, he's helped lots of people before. But you stay because of his empathy, audacity, and unique ability in such short amounts of time to bring you to mental and emotional breakthroughs you wouldn't have expected.

    Jason's range is extremely broad. He can shift from rapid tactical coaching on the next critical few days to year long strategic planning to connecting triggers to past traumas that are holding you back at work and in life. Everyone has their own blocks, often ones we confuse as good attributes. For me, one prime example is I've long focused on being the hardest working person on the team, the first in, the last to leave, the most boxes checked. I saw it as leading by example, taking on the hard tasks that weren't anyone's favorite, leadership by taking out the trash as a prior mentor told me. But too often I was also holding back the whole company's ability to scale and in fact not doing work that I'm uniquely positioned to do, to bring more leverage into the business, more resources and openings to the people I hired because they are amazing at their job. This is just one critical area that Jason has helped me elevate through our time together.

  • Lindsey Michaelides, Co-founder & CEO, Strongsuit

    Words fail me in times like this, but hopefully it will help another leader get out of their own way and accept an invitation to so much more. I'll be forever grateful for the mark this work has left on my life.

    Working with Jason has changed my life. As a founder and CEO who prides myself on my capital efficiency, I can say that the impact to my business has been immense and quantifiable. I'd share more, but the idea of tying the impact of Jason's coaching to standard business metrics like ROI feels cheap and woefully inadequate. Our coaching relationship has not only made me a better leader, partner, and parent; it's made me a better human.

    As a lover of all things related to growth/personal development, I have been fortunate to work with many exceptional coaches and leadership development professionals throughout my career. Working with Jason has been different in so many ways and completely transformational. The work has required more trust, vulnerability and accountability than I have ever been asked to give. The rewards have been so much greater than I ever could have ever imagined. The best part: I feel like I am just getting started.

Trainings & Certifications
  • Co-Active Training Institute

  • Leadership Circle

  • iEQ9 Enneagram

  • Stanford GSB, Claremont McKenna College

Specialties & Experience
  • Founder (venture-backed)

  • Founder (Bootstrapped small business)

  • Venture Capitalist