Jason Rudin

Jason Rudin is the founder and CEO of Clad, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) startup building what he calls the operating system for telecom construction. From a New York base, Clad unifies project operations and finance so utilities, internet companies, and their subcontractors can bid, manage, permit, and get paid for laying fiber and rebuilding power networks. Before founding Clad in 2022, Rudin spent four years as a product manager at Meta and Instagram, externed at Google[X], and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey after graduating from Penn's Wharton School and its Management & Technology program. A self-described builder fascinated by how physical things get made, he woodworks, makes art, and reads widely when he is not automating the unglamorous plumbing of American infrastructure.