Jason Shafton is an 🏷️#entrepreneur, 🏷️#product-manager, and 🏷️#marketing-executive with more than two decades of experience in technology, wellness, and media. He is the co-founder and CEO of 📝Winston Francois, a consulting firm based in 📝Los Angeles, CA that advises startups and global brands on growth strategy, 📝Product-Market Fit (PMF), organizational design, and branding. Shafton’s career began at 📝Google in 2007, where he helped launch Google Music and Google Play and contributed to scaling Google Ads. He later worked at 📝Comedy Central, overseeing consumer marketing campaigns for shows such as 📝South Park, The Daily Show, and Broad City. In 2014, he co-founded 📝Heal, an in-home healthcare service later acquired by Humana, before becoming Chief Marketing Officer at Soothe in 2017 and Vice President of Marketing at 📝Headspace in 2018, where he expanded the platform’s global reach. He currently leads Vively Health, focusing on accessible patient care.
Shafton studied marketing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and participated in the Google Marketing Academy at the Wharton School. He lives
Jason and I were introduced by 📝Brian Rabben in 2018 as Winston Francois was kicking off. He brought me in to run growth strategy for a mobile app startup with a first time founder who became problematic, but seeing how he handled the situation was endearing.
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