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From A 16-Year Old Runaway To Building 3 Unicorns

Meet Jason Radisson. Tech Founder & CEO at Shift One (ex-Uber, McKinsey). His lifelong mission is to improve economic opportunities for others and he has been doing this through growing multiple unicorns all over the world.

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Who is Jason?

Jason was born in Western Massachusetts to a 16-year-old single mom who worked all shifts to lift them out of poverty. To pay for his education, Jason worked as a night janitor, security guard, short-order cook, warehouse worker, sheet-metal mechanic, and HVAC installation technician.

Jason has been fortunate to build multiple tech unicorns that today provide work to more than 1 million people. Most recently as COO at 99 Taxis, Brazil’s first unicorn. He was also an early investor in Rappi and a hands-on advisor to the Co-Founders. Before that Uber, where he was a regional GM and member of the West Coast Leadership Team. Prior to that at Avira, Jason was Europe’s leading cybersecurity platform with 300M+ daily active users.

Jason holds 3 board and advisor roles including Investor / Growth Advisor at Liftit, Nok, and Rappi. His lifelong mission is to improve millions of jobs by inspiring and developing the blue-collar workforce of tomorrow, whose ultimate purpose is to enable workers

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, mentoring, and sports: skiing, cycling, and running marathons.

Highlights
Founder & CEO at Shift One, a marketplace for skilled labor in warehouses, logistics, and assembly
Shift One just raised a $5.2 million seed round
CEO at TriForce, specializing in providing innovative and cost-effective IT Staffing, software development
Built a team in Nevada for Uber, in the position of regional GM, and took it to 1B in just 6 months
Went to 99 taxis in Brazil and built it to a unicorn and achieved 1B in one year
The only tech Founder that is a member of both Uber and Rappi Mafias
Who is Jason?

Jason was born in Western Massachusetts to a 16-year-old single mom who worked all shifts to lift them out of poverty. To pay for his education, Jason worked as a night janitor, security guard, short-order cook, warehouse worker, sheet-metal mechanic, and HVAC installation technician.

Jason has been fortunate to build multiple tech unicorns that today provide work to more than 1 million people. Most recently as COO at 99 Taxis, Brazil’s first unicorn. He was also an early investor in Rappi and a hands-on advisor to the Co-Founders. Before that Uber, where he was a regional GM and member of the West Coast Leadership Team. Prior to that at Avira, Jason was Europe’s leading cybersecurity platform with 300M+ daily active users.

Jason holds 3 board and advisor roles including Investor / Growth Advisor at Liftit, Nok, and Rappi. His lifelong mission is to improve millions of jobs by inspiring and developing the blue-collar workforce of tomorrow, whose ultimate purpose is to enable workers

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, mentoring, and sports: skiing, cycling, and running marathons.

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From A 16-Year Old High-School Dropout To Growing Unicorns

Jason began his journey as a 16-year old runaway and high-school dropout. Jason was an outsider but he was hungry to succeed. He went from working as a night janitor paying for his education and now has fully-fledged to build three unicorns (Uber, 99 taxis, and Rappi) in less than a decade, led by a career in technology.

On your podcast, Jason can talk about his story of the workers in the restaurants being his childcare to building multiple unicorns. He can share strong examples of bootstrapping and getting ahead in life. As well as why building a team, their capabilities, and being ready to scale efficiently is a recipe for success.

Surprising Lessons From Growing 3 Unicorns From As a COO and Advisor

Uber. Same as Google, it’s a verb these days. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to become a household name, since not every startup can grab growth by the horn. Becoming a unicorn is the envy of all startups, so what can you do to make it there? Often stories are shared from CEOs and Founders, although in this case, Jason worked both as COO and advisor.

On your podcast, Jason can talk about why the best cities for growing unicorns are not the ones you would expect. He can explain how finding talent anywhere in the world and getting them to your company is a superpower. As well as explain that depending on how efficient a team is, evidently, separates exceptional from average and ultimately achieves operational excellence.

Playbook vs. Craft Entrepreneurs: How To Growth Like Hell and Don't Run Out Of Money

There are two types of entrepreneurs: Playbooks and Crafts. Playbook entrepreneurs do things “how they should be done”. They decide to start a business, raise a bunch of money, and see if it succeeds. But the Craft entrepreneurs are the ones that actually succeed in the long run. They love their craft as entrepreneurs and they are not thrown off by bumps in the road.

On your podcast, Jason can talk about his experience building multiple unicorns with some of the best entrepreneurs of this generation. He’ll share what makes them different from average entrepreneurs, how they make decisions, and what are the things they don’t spend a lot of time on. Your audience will experience a mindset shift, so they build their company the right way.

Blue-Collar Revolution: Creating The Largest Ethical Employer In The US

There are two significant challenges of the labor economy: the lack of a robust online marketplace for working-class jobs and a technology solution for companies looking to hire those workers. The pandemic was a catalyst and accelerated the wrongdoings in blue-collar employment.

On your podcast, Jason can talk about how providing BPO services at a high scale, moves people around and protects them from a choppy resume. Jason is revolutionizing the industry, growing 50% MoM, and accomplishing his company vision of a future of blue-collar opportunity. As a result, Sh1ftone emerged as the fastest way to get into the workforce, to upskill, and to get ahead in 2022, in any city in America.

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