# Jason Beckerman

> Jason Beckerman co-founded Unified in 2011 and became its CEO in 2015, following earlier ventures in online education and social advertising and work in financial services software. Unified was acquired by iHeartMedia in 2020. His current public profiles identify a stealth startup and an advisory role at iHeartMedia.

- **Role:** Founder at a stealth startup; Senior Advisor at iHeartMedia (public profile descriptions)
- **Organizations:** Unified, iHeartMedia, Teach the People, Social Suitcase, EpicSocial, Salesforce, Siebel, Albridge Solutions, Island ECN, Paytrust, Merrill Lynch
- **Education:** B.S., Entrepreneurship and Information Systems, Quinnipiac University, M.A., Organizational Leadership, Gonzaga University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Unified and led it as CEO after 2015., Teach the People presented at TechCrunch 40 and became a Facebook Fund grant company., Unified won a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation Competition segment in 2014 for the second time.

## Career timeline

- **Age 16** — Began work at Merrill Lynch after attending Take Your Child to Work Day.
- **1999-2001** — Worked at Paytrust in development support and call-center analysis.
- **2003-2005** — Siebel Project Manager at Albridge Solutions.
- **2006-2007** — Consultant at Salesforce, working on its Merrill Lynch deployment.
- **2007** — Presented Teach the People at TechCrunch 40.
- **2008** — Teach the People received a Facebook Fund grant.
- **2009-2010** — CEO of Social Suitcase, later acquired by Connexus.
- **2010-2011** — VP of Social Strategy at EpicSocial.
- **2011** — Co-founded Unified with Josh Backer and Sheldon Owen.
- **2012** — Unified publicly launched its Social Operating Platform; Beckerman was chief strategy officer.
- **2014** — Chief product officer at Unified when it won a Facebook PMD Innovation Competition segment.
- **2015** — Became CEO of Unified.
- **2020** — iHeartMedia acquired Unified.
- **2026** — Public profiles describe a stealth startup and senior advisory work at iHeartMedia.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Unified and led it as CEO after 2015.
- Teach the People presented at TechCrunch 40 and became a Facebook Fund grant company.
- Unified won a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation Competition segment in 2014 for the second time.
- Named among DMN's 2018 40Under40 honorees.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Argued on LinkedIn for verified human participation and meaningful value exchange in online products.
- **2025-12** — Wrote about the need for skeptical judgment as AI accelerates solo product development.
- **2026-10** — Research check: public LinkedIn profile lists a stealth startup; X biography describes former Unified CEO and senior advisor to iHeartMedia. This is an observation date, not an appointment date.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbeckerman
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jsbeckerman

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Last updated: 2026-10-24