Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin was born on 11 May 1967 and is a British-born venture capitalist and journalist.
10 Facts About Jason Pontin
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Jason Pontin is a partner at the venture capital firm of DCVC in Palo Alto, and is a board member and seed investor in a number of life sciences companies.
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Jason Pontin is the former editor in chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review.
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Jason Pontin was raised in Northern California and educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University.
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From 1996 to 2002, Jason Pontin was the editor of Red Herring, a business and technology publication.
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Jason Pontin has written for many national and international magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Believer Magazine, and Wired.
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Jason Pontin writes for Wired in the publication's "IDEAS" channel and contributes to the magazine.
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Jason Pontin was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August 2005 was named publisher.
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Jason Pontin engaged in what The Boston Globe has described as a "strategic overhaul" of Technology Review, whose goal is to make the magazine into a largely electronic publishing company.
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Jason Pontin has been a General Partner at DCVC since March 2021.