jason oberfest

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  • Jason Oberfest

  • 37 / Male
  • LOS ANGELES, California, US
  • Last Login: 12/23/2009

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Interests

  • General

    sailboat racing, surfing, social media, wooden boat-building
  • Music

    pavement, radiohead, yo la tengo, jack johnson, the shins, uncle tupelo, beck, the stones, elliott smith, neil young, beta band, cymande, miles davis, kenny burrell, grant green, lee morgan, coltrane, lee perry, keith hudson, johnnie clarke, jacob miller, fela kuti, tony allen, thievery corporation, zero7, jazzanova
  • Movies

    casino royale, last king of scotland, caddyshack, bottle rocket, city of god, this is spinal tap, the godfather, sideways
  • Television

    charlie rose, the daily show, arrested development, frontline, the office (BBC)
  • Books

    anything by tobias wolff, jack london, ed tufte, doris kearns goodwin, peter drucker, gary snyder
  • Heroes

    yvon chouinard, george soros, nat herreshoff

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Zodiac Sign: Aries
  • Occupation: Internet

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About me:

I was born in Philly and grew up on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. I enjoyed building and racing sailboats for a living until the Internet caught my interest in 1996.

I work as SVP of Business Development for MySpace where I structure and negotiate deals to drive revenue and support the launch of new products.

Prior to MySpace I served as Managing Director of Business Development and Product Management for Los Angeles Times Interactive where I structured deals with startups including Aggregate Knowledge, Netvibes, Eventful and Mixx.com and launched a first phase redesign of latimes.com, ultimately generating enough online ad revenue to cover the Times's entire editorial payroll, print and online (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/12/la-times-online-advertising).

Before LAT I worked as VP of Strategy at the interactive agency Blast Radius (http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/blastradius/). I joined Blast as the 31st employee; while there I founded the strategy division of the company, served as a member of the senior management team and helped grow the company to 300 employees on a bootstrapped operating model (growth funded entirely from operating profit with no outside funding). I also led the design and development of search, content and commerce websites for AOL, Sony, Nintendo, Viacom, Atlantic Records, A&E Television Networks and others. Blast was acquired by the WPP Group in 2007.

Outside of work I spend my free time surfing whenever I can, discovering new music and hanging with my wife Celeste and our children Nina and Johnny.



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Who I'd like to meet:

george soros, charlie munger, gerry lopez (pipeline master), barack, nigel tufnel

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