Jason is a Partner at Techstars Ventures, the venture capital arm at Techstars, a start-up accelerator considered one of the best in the world, with offices in 15 cities in the US and abroad. Jason was most recently the Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin, and Cloud in San Antonio. Prior to joining Techstars, Jason was a founder of Slicehost, an early cloud computing hosting company. In 2008, Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace and became the core for the initial Cloud Servers product. Jason continued on at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of Software Development for Rackspace Cloud, managing the cloud engineering teams. Jason has a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University.